Swiss friends and the Vietnamese flag on top of Notre Dame Cathedral

In 1969, while the world’s attention was fixed on the Paris Conference, three young Swiss men quietly raised the flag of the National Liberation Front of South Viet Nam atop the Notre Dame Cathedral. More than fifty years later, two of them, Olivier Parriaux and Bernard Bachelard, set foot in Viet Nam for the first time. They did not come seeking recognition, but to affirm a simple truth: their journey with Viet Nam has never ceased.