LAST EMPEROR IN LINE THAT RULED VIETNAM FOR 150 YEARS DIES IN PARIS AT 83.(News/National/International)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: August 2, 1997 | Copyright information

Byline: Philip Shenon The New York Times

Bao Dai, the last emperor in a line that ruled Vietnam for a century and a half, died Thursday in a hospital in Paris. Bao, 83, had spent nearly half of his life in exile after abdicating in 1945.

Despite the hopes of Vietnamese nationalists early in the century that Bao Dai might emerge as a pioneer of Vietnamese independence, he was often seen as the puppet of others - first the French colonialists, then the Japanese ...

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