Bảo Đại
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Bảo Đại, born Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, was the 13th and final emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last ruling dynasty of Vietnam. From 1926 to 1945, he was de jure emperor of Đại Nam, which consisted of
Bảo Đại on throne in Thái Hòa throne hall
Crown Prince Vĩnh Thụy in 1920
Bảo Đại and his mother
Young crown prince Vĩnh Thụy (right) boarding the Azay-le-Rideau steamer bound for Marseille to attend colonial exhibition in France, 1922
Ho Chi Minh
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Hồ Chí Minh, colloquially known as Uncle Ho among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945. He served
Bảo Đại
…August 30, 1945. He became citizen "Vĩnh Thụy". This marked the end of a thousand years of Vietnamese monarchy. Later, Bảo Đại received the letter from Hồ Chí Minh inviting him to be the supreme advisor of the new government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam that he later accepted. "The provisional government…
Portrait, c. 1946
Commemorative plaque in Haymarket in London
1920 security report by the French Indochinese government on Nguyễn Tất Thành listing his aliases, places of residence, his father's occupation, as well as other information.
Hồ Chí Minh, 1921, using the pseudonym Nguyễn Ái Quốc, attending a Communist congress in Marseille, France.