By car, in the streets of Saigon 1950

Bonnard Boulevard (now Lê Lợi)

This boulevard starts at the Municipal Theater and intersects perpendicularly with Catinat Street and Charner Boulevard, ending at Eugène Cuniac Square where the railway station is located.

The Boudonnet Taxi Station
Boudonnet Street runs along the north side of the train station platform. It connects Frère-Louis Street to Cuniac Square (Central Market Halls).

Colonel Boudonnet Street was formerly called ’North Side Street of the Station.’

Its new name was assigned by the city council during its session on March 29, 1917.

Charner Roundabout, Rond Point Charner

Portrait of Louis-Adolphe Bonnard
Louis-Ferdinand Bonnard, born on March 27, 1805, in Cherbourg and died on March 31, 1867, in Vanves, was the first Governor Admiral of Cochinchina, appointed by Emperor Napoleon III from November 30, 1861, to October 16, 1863.

Portrait of Colonel Boudonnet
Théodore Georges Auguste Boudonnet came to the Far East at the beginning of the century. On June 12, 1901, while he was a lieutenant colonel, he received command of the troops in Quang-Tchéou-Wan and held it until February 5, 1903. It seems that at that time, he returned to the mainland (France).
In 1908, as a colonel, he went to Saigon and commanded the Annamite riflemen regiment, part of the 3rd brigade, under the orders of General de Beylié. From March 20, 1912, to March 26, 1913, Colonel Boudonnet was entrusted with the 1st Infantry Brigade, succeeding General de Giovellina. Colonel Boudonnet was, without a doubt, in France when the Great War broke out, because, as early as August, he took part in the operations and lost his life in a fierce battle that took place in the Sy wood on September 1, 1914, to prevent the enemy from passing through the Argonne defiles.