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French–Vietnamese relations started as early as the 17th century with the mission of the Jesuit father Alexandre de Rhodes. Various traders would visit Vietnam during the 18th century, until the major involvement of French forces under Pigneau de Béhaine from 1787 to 1789 helped establish the Nguyễn Dynasty. France was heavily involved in Vietnam in the 19th century under the pretext of protecting the work of Catholic missionaries in the country. France progressively carved for itself a huge colony, which would form French Indochina in 1887. France continued to rule Vietnam as a colony until France's defeat in the First Indochina War and the proclamation of Vietnam's independence in 1954. ==First contacts== One of the first Frenchmen to visit Vietnam was the Jesuit father Alexandre de Rhodes,〔Chapuis, ''A History'', (p. 170 ).〕 who arrived there in 1620. While he was in Vietnam, he wrote the first Vietnamese Catechism and he went livin Alexandre de Rhodes returned to Europe in 1650, to advocate the dispatch of bishops in order to better accompany the development of Roman Catholicism in Vietnam (at that time around 100,000 converts), and the dispatch of bishops in order to create a strong native clergy and avoid in Vietnam a catastrophic eradication of Christianity, as seen in the case of Christianity in Japan around 1620:〔''Les Missions Etrangeres'', p.25〕 The efforts of Alexander de Rhodes led to the creation of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, marking the involvement of Catholic France as a new missionary power in Asia. From 1660 a base was established in Ayutthaya, Siam, by Mgr Pallu and Mgr Lambert de la Motte, from where numerous attempts were made to send missionaries to Vietnam. Meanwhile, the Jesuits continued their efforts in Vietnam. In 1658, Fathers Manoel Ferreira and Frenchman Joseph Tissanier arrived in Tonkin,〔Tạ, (p.99 )〕 but they were expelled in 1664 under the rule of Trịnh Tạc, and fled to Ayutthaya.〔''Les Missions Etrangeres'', p.54〕 In June 1666, the Ayutthaya base of the Paris Foreign Missions Society dispatched Father François Deydier to Tonkin, who was able to reorganize Catholics there, although he remained in hiding.〔''Les Missions Etrangeres'', p.55〕 Mgr Lambert de la Motte himself would also visit the mission in Tonkin in 1669 and reinforce the organization there, under cover of trading activities of the French East India Company.〔 In 1680, the French East India Company opened a factory in Phố Hiến.〔Chapuis, ''A History'', (p.172 )〕 The famous Frenchman Pierre Poivre visited Vietnam from 1720.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「France–Vietnam relations」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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