Hello young chap  Thanks for the info I still believe that when quoting someone  and still more when quoting a legal text  one should keep the text exactly as it is except for evident typos Neither Vietnamese nor modern English nor modern French  but we write Hanoi and Saigon use hyphens for Vietnamese names but an original text is an original text Will you translate de Ngriers quotes into jeune de banlieue slang to please the Wikipedia thought police Will you replace Tourane Cap Padaran PouloCcir de mer etc by modern names Will you talk about the Ho Chi Minh City Treaties of  and  Use modern English in the text not in the quotes Hope you hear my greatgrandfather making bubbles behind me  he is furious that you dare change a text he spent so much time drafting and redrafting to get the Nguyn Vn Tng scoundrel swallow it pour la plus grande gloire de la France et de sa mission civilisatrice   By the way I modified the Vietnam part of Jules Patenotre des Noyers no  because of the primitive anglosaxon keyboards I will develop the China part later   By another way I wonder what is this book you often quote Thomazi Auguste   Histoire militaire de lIndochine franaise   Hanoi  I know but I do not have  it is too expensive Aubert gnral et Pasquier P   Histoire militaire de lIndochine franaise des dbuts  nos jours juillet  tablie par des officiers de lEtatmajor du gnral de division Aubert commandant suprieur des troupes du Groupe de lIndochine Hanoi et Haiphong juillet   vol    pp As far as I know Thomazi has nothing to do with it  By a third way I noticed that your real name appears at the top of your dicussion page  By a fourth way Liu Yongfu is coming slowly I have put the draft on my French page but it disappeared