The Fontainebleau Agreements were a proposed arrangement between the France and the Viet Minh, made in 1946 before the outbreak of the First Indochina War. The agreements affiliated Vietnam under the French Union.^[1] At the meetings, Ho Chi Minh pushed for Vietnamese independence but the French would not agree to this proposal.^[1]

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When the Vietnamese government wrote a draft constitution without reference to the French, the latter attempted to regain control of French Indochina, contributing to the outbreak of the Indochina War.

• Élysée Accords – 1949 agreement between France and Vietnam