Citadel of Saigon
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The Citadel of Saigon also known as the Citadel of Gia Định was a late 18th-century fortress that stood in Saigon, Vietnam from its construction in 1790 until its destruction in February 1859. The cit
Rigault de Genouilly captured the citadel in a French attack in 1859.
A remaining cannon of Citadel of Saigon
Pierre Pigneau de Béhaine
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Pierre Joseph Georges Pigneau, commonly known as Pigneau de Béhaine, also Pierre Pigneaux, Bá Đa Lộc, Bách Đa Lộc and Bi Nhu, was a French Roman Catholic bishop best known for his role in assisting Ng
1850 portrait of de Béhaine by Eugénie Salanson
A page of the 1773 Annamite–Latin manuscript dictionary created by Pigneau de Behaine.
Pigneau de Behaine's dictionary was published in 1838 by Mgr Jean-Louis Taberd.
Episcopal seal of Mgr Pigneau de Behaine.