Olivier Faure's maternal grandfather was a Viet Minh minister

Olivier Faure's maternal grandfather was a wealthy South Vietnamese landowner of Chinese descent. Having become a Viet Minh minister after the Second World War, he died after the Tet Offensive in 1969. The rest of the family history was marked by the fall of Saigon, during which the family's fortune and property were looted by the Viet Cong.