I returned to the US after spending the summer in Poland and posted on a Vietnamese forum about my trip; from this forum, I met two Vietnamese who lived in Paris. After a year resettling in US, I got antsy again and decided to go back to Europe. My obvious stop was then Paris.
Vietnamese don’t travel much, but if given the option, they likely choose France for the obvious reason that France is the only Western culture which is closest to Vietnam. 100-year colony must have counted for something. Many things which we encounter in our daily lives: food, vocabulary, ritual, etc. are taken from the French.
My grandmother, who had never traveled outside of Vietnam and didn’t care much for world news, unsurprisingly could tell you a thing or two about who else than the French. If you give her fifteen minutes, she would eager tell you about her famous long-lost nephew. And who is that man? He was the late France’s socialist president, Francois Mitterrand. Her long-lost sister married a French and they had a son with whom my grandmother never met. How she connected a half Vietnamese-French to the French president is beyond me. So you see, before I heard of anyone worldwide famous, before Confucius, Hitler, Stalin, Superman, I’d already knew Mitterrand.
My longing to visit France had nothing to do with finding my missing celebrity cousin nor to examine the secret of ‘why French women don’t get fat’, rather I was following the melodies which had always captivated me since childhood, the French chansons.
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