Le Thi Luu (Vietnam, 1911-1988) sitting on the right of Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam, 1890-1969) on his special occasion to Paris for The Fontainebleau Agreements which were a proposed arrangement between the France and the Vietminh, made in 1946 before the outbreak of the First Indochina War. The agreements affiliated Vietnam under the French Union. At the meetings, Ho Chi Minh pushed for Vietnamese independence but the French would not agree to this proposal. When the Vietnamese government wrote a draft constitution without reference to the French, the latter attempted to regain control of French Indochina, contributing to the outbreak of the Indochina War, Paris, 1946.