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French snatched vassals/part of Siam in the late 1800's and added to their Indochina colony, during WW2, after the Franco-Thai war of 1941 (which saw Thailand absorb parts of French Laos and Cambodia following Japanese mediation) the French sponsored Lao nationalism to counter Thai nationalism (Thai nationalism being the reason for changing name of the state from Siam to Thai-Land, a state for >all< Thai's) and Thai aspirations to absorb Lao (Thai) areas into greater Thai-Land)