Pierre Brocheux

Brocheux was born in Cholon (nowadays Ho Chi Minh City) in French Indochina on 18 May 1931 to a French father and a Vietnamese-French mother.^[3] He attended primary and secondary school in Saigon and Paris. A certified professor, he taught history and geography to secondary school students in Saigon from 1960 to 1968.^[4] He then taught the same subject at a secondary technical school in Vitry-sur-Seine from 1968 to 1970.

Brocheux earned a doctorate in history from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in 1969.^[5] Afterwards, he worked as a lecturer at Paris Diderot University from 1970 to 1997. From 1989 to 2001, he was editor-in-chief of Revue de l'histoire des colonies françaises. In 1994, he co-founded the Association française des chercheurs sur l'Asie du Sud-Est, of which he served as president from 1994 to 1997.

Brocheux died on 25 December 2022, at the age of 91.^[6]

• Histoire de l'Asie du Sud-Est : révoltes, réformes et révolutions (1981)
• Indochine, la colonisation ambiguë (1995)
• Hô Chi Minh (2000)
• Viet Nam Exposé.French Scholarship on Twentieth Century Vietnamese Society (2002)
• Hô Chi Minh, du révolutionnaire à l’icône (2003)^[7]
• Une histoire économique du Viet Nam : 1850-2007 : la palanche et le camion (2009)
• The Mekong Delta. Ecology, Economy and Revolution. 1860-1960 (2009)
• Histoire du Vietnam contemporain : la nation résiliente (2011)
• Les décolonisations au XXe siècle : la fin des empires européens et japonais (2012)