the American government finally accepted negotiations to find a way of ending the Vietnam War. Paris was chosen as the venue for the talks because de Gaulle’s position during the war had won him the trust of the North Vietnamese. After all the setbacks of 1967, this was a signal success for French diplomacy. The talks opened at the Hôtel Majestic in Paris on 13 May, but this important event went almost unnoticed because on the same day France was plunged into revolution.
