Bảo Đại (Hán tự: 保大, lit. "keeper of greatness", 22 October 1913 – 30 July 1997), born Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, was the 13th and final Emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last ruling family of Vietnam. From 1926 to 1945, he was Emperor of Annam, which was then a protectorate in French Indochina, covering the central two thirds of the present-day Vietnam. Bảo Đại ascended the throne in 1932.
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Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy (阮福永瑞) 22 October 1913 Huế, Vietnam
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Died |
30 July 1997 (aged 83) Val-de-Grâce, Paris, France
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Zodiac | Libra |
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