Remembering "other" losses

Jennings discusses the Temple du Souvenir Indochinois of Nogent-sur-Marne, which was built in commemoration of Indochinese fatalities in the First World War, and explores the origins, stakes, trappings and shifting meanings of what was conceived as a "Pantheon" to Indochinese soldiers on the outskirts of Paris. The project of commemorating Indochinese soldiers and workers who perished in the First World War was a colonial initiative, and as such served the cause of legitimizing French colonial rule, and indeed of expressing Indochinese fidelity toward the colonizer through a scripted discourse of sacrifice.