https://youtu.be/e02mhpIFbhM A Brief History of Saigon's Independence Palace Published on Monday, 31 October 2016 17:01 Written by Saigoneer. Fifty years ago today, South Vietnam’s then-president Nguyen Van Thieu inaugurated the city’s Independence Palace on October 31, 1966. However, before the land at the western end of Le Duan Boulevard housed this building, it was the site of the French Palace of the Government, also known as Norodom Palace. Constructed between 1868 and 1873, the original palace was built by Frenchman Georges l’Hermitte, the first Beaux Arts-trained architect to work in Indochina. The grand colonial structure came with a price tag of 12.5 million francs. The original French-built Norodom Palace. Photo via Flickr user manhhai . Despite the time, money and effort that went into the French-built structure, the palace’s practical use was short-lived. Though it briefly served as a residence for the Governor of Cochinchina, governmental resh...
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