First Indochina War
On 1 April 1947, he was promoted to Brigadier General (two-star general, entry level for a general officer in the French army ranking system) of colonial troops, a local army with French commanding officers. After the First Indochina War, he took exile in metropolitan France, where he died in 1989.
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