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Synopsis

Neige d'Indochine is about Gal Leclerc. As a young captain, he joined De Gaulle in London by 1940 and illustrated himself in the Free French Forces. Gal Leclerc is amongst the most popular De Gaulle's collaborator. He built up the 2nd Armoured Division which led significant military actions amongst them, he was the first to enter Paris in August 1944. After the German defeat, De Gaulle appointed Leclerc as chief commander of the expeditionary forces in charge of restoring the French authority over the French colonies in Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos...).