Paul Mus

"[1] At the outbreak of World War II he was serving as a platoon commander leading a colonial unit in combat at Valvin and Sully-sur-Loire for which he would be awarded the Croix de Guerre.

[a] In 1947, Mus became the political advisor to Émile Bollaert, the new French High Commissioner of Indochina.

Mus had been authorised to offer Ho a ceasefire on three conditions: 1. the Viet Minh were to lay down their weapons, 2.

Ho refused the offer commenting "In the French Union there is no place for cowards, if I accepted these conditions I would be one.

"[6] Mus first met Ho Chi Minh in 1945 and recounted in his interview for the 1968 documentary film In the Year of the Pig that:[b] He later served as a professor at both the Collège de France and Yale University.

Paul Mus (1902-1969)
Vietnam National Museum of History, Hanoi, Vietnam. During the colonial period, the building housed The French School of the Far East , where Paul Mus worked for thirteen years, from 1927 to 1940.