:34:23
As expected,
it was ruled a suicide.
:34:28
Fighting for
Jean-Baptiste's memory...
:34:30
was like battling against
France and the empire.
:34:39
So I wrote to Saigon's
leading newspaper.
:34:43
It was a simple letter...
:34:45
saying your father loved life...
:34:47
far too much to decide
to die like that.
:34:54
I accompanied him to the boat,
as I'd promised him.
:35:01
Without you,
I would have followed him.
:35:20
You were five years old.
:35:22
I had no news about your mother
except that she was alive.
:35:30
To have her pardoned,
I wrote to the president...
:35:33
the Minister of Justice,
the Minister of Colonies...
:35:36
and the Governor General.
:35:38
None of them answered.