[Wounded French soldier, Louangphrabang, Laos]

[Children playing on the steps of a temple, Louangphrabang, Laos]

[French soldier guards the royal palace, Louangphrabang, Laos]

[French soldiers smoking and looking at photographs, Louangphrabang, Laos]

[People squatting in the street after the rain, Louangphrabang, Laos]

[Child running past a statue outside a temple, Louangphrabang, Laos]

[French soldiers, ill and wounded, march single file across a foot bridge after their release by the Vietminh, Louangphrabang, Laos]