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Éliane Devries


 * Age: ** 30
 * Gender: ** Female
 * Occupation: ** owns rubber plantation in Saigon(now known as Ho Chi Minh), Vietnam, Indo-China.
 * Appearance: She is about 162cm and she is skinny. ** She has brownish hair and comparatively white skin. Especially her skin color stands out among the relatively dark skin colors of the Vietnamese. She looks like typical rich French women during the 1930s. She looks gorgeous and looks sophisticated, just like the nobility class in France. She likes to decorate herself with jewels.
 * Location: ** Saigon, Vietnam
 * Personality/Quirks/Unique Personality Traits: ** Despite the fact that she desires to go back to her homeland France, she seems to be satisfied with her life in Indo-China. She thinks cooperating with foreign people is interesting and is a good experience in life. She really likes young children and cares for them. She thinks young, innocent kids who are unaware of the French colonization are victims of European imperialists' ambitions.
 * Family: **Although she is not married, she lives with her family in Vietnam. She lives with her parents and her brother. However, her brother died as a result of the conflict with Vietnamese employers due to wages issues. (The Vietnamese employes were furious with low wages and poor working condition) Her parents usually stay home and sometimes helps with the rubber plantation. Both parents are great contributors to the plantation.
 * Education: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> graduated university, studied agriculture.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Languages you speak **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">: French, Vietnamese, English
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Your main concerns at this time and in life: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> She is worried with the increasing tension between the French and the colonial Indo-China. (In the latter 1940s First French Indochina war takes place) She is even more worried after her brother was persecuted by the Vietnamese. To reduce the conflicts with the workers, she tries to be cooperative with the Vietnamese by caring and giving snacks to the workers' kids.

source for the picture: http://movieloner.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/indochine1.jpg

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