ROBERT COHEN Ho Chi Minh, September 16th, Paris 1946

Vintage silver print 13 x 18 cm Photographer's agency stamp on the reverse, label with typographic description in French on the reverse Caption reading: “Ho Chi Minh, president of the Republic of Vietnam, on the platform of Gare de Lyon in Paris. He and Marius Moutet agreed on a ceasefire in Paris.” (Moutet was a French Socialist diplomat and colonial adviser, who served as Minister of the Colonies in the 1930s and 1940s. Moutet was sympathetic to Ho Chi Minh and advocated the independence of Vietnam.