Henri Navarre

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Henri Navarre (July 31, 1898 - September 26, 1983) was the commander of French forces in Indochina during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in the First Indochina War. He died in Paris in 1983. He published 'Agonie de l'Indochine' in 1956, a work which blames the Indochina defeat on the nature of the French political system, intellectuals, politicians, journalists, and Communists. The book lays down a justification for and warns of the possible necessity for an army coup to replace the French Fourth Republic.