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Bao Dai

Born Oct. 22,1913. Emperor of Annam from 1926 to 1945.

Bao Dai abdicated during the August revolution of 1945 in Vietnam. For several months in 1945 and 1946 he was an adviser to the government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. In the spring of 1946 he fled to Hong Kong; in March 1949 he signed an agreement with France that resulted in the creation of a puppet state on the French-occupied territory of Vietnam, headed by Bao Dai. As a result of a “referendum” in South Vietnam on Oct. 23, 1955, Bao Dai was removed as head of the “state of Vietnam.” Since April 1954 he has lived in France.

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