Sewer crews in French colonial Hanoi killed 20,114 rats on 12 June 1902 alone, so the city paid a bounty per tail, and an official later found villagers breeding rats outside town to cash in
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By 1902, the French had spent years transforming Hanoi, convinced they knew how to build a better city. Doctors, engineers and colonial officials had arrived in Vietnam with grand plans. They wanted to turn Hanoi into a showcase of French architecture, culture and modern infrastructure. They called it their mission civilisatrice, or "civilizing mission." The […]
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