Throwing small coins and grains in front of Annamite children in French Indochina (today Vietnam)

Daughter (right) and wife (left) of French Governor-General Paul Doumer throwing small coins and grains in front of Annamite children in French Indochina (today Vietnam), when it was a French colony, filmed by Gabriel Veyre in 1900. The Lumière brothers recorded this to show the “greatness” of the civilized French and their colonies.
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