Word: pigneau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pigneau de Béhaine, and French troops, Nguyen phua Anh reconquered Annam and Cochin-China and made himself Emperor under the name Gia Long. When the bishop died, Gia Long built him a great temple and wrote his epitaph. Some of the Nguyens turned Catholic, remained true to the memory of great Pigneau de Béhaine. The Imperial line did not. It massacred great quantities of Annamite Catholics, including its own distant Nguyen kin, and brought more French troops tramping across the rice fields into the Imperial City of Huê. Prince Vinh Tuy (Bao Dai), educated from...
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