Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan, later Imperial Princess Nam Phương and Empress Nam Phương (14 December 1914 – 16 December 1963), was the first and primary wife of Bảo Đại, the last king of Annam and last emperor of Vietnam, from 1934 until her death.
She also was the first empress consort (hoàng hậu) of the Nguyễn Dynasty.
Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan was born in Gò Công, a Mekong Delta town in what was then the French colony of Cochinchina...
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Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan, later Imperial Princess Nam Phương and Empress Nam Phương (14 December 1914 – 16 December 1963), was the first and primary wife of Bảo Đại, the last king of Annam and last emperor of Vietnam, from 1934 until her death.
She also was the first empress consort (hoàng hậu) of the Nguyễn Dynasty.
Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan was born in Gò Công, a Mekong Delta town in what was then the French colony of Cochinchina, one of the three areas (the others being the protectorates of Annam and Tonkin) that composed the Union of French Indochina.
Her father, Pierre Nguyễn Hữu-Hào, described as a wealthy merchant, had been born into a poor Catholic family in Gò Công. Through an introduction from the Archbishop of Saigon, he became secretary to the billionaire Lê Phát Đạt, Duke of Long My, and eventually married his employer's daughter, Marie Lê Thị Binh, and inherited his title.
A naturalized French citizen, Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan, who was known as Mariette, studied...
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