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\n\t\nBY S.A.I. PRINCE BAO LONG<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\tH.M. Empress Nam Phuong and H.M. Emperor Bao Dai, Imperial City of Hue, 1934<\/p>\n\t
Delighted that this exhibition is taking place and that I have been invited to write a few lines, but aware that I am neither a historian nor a writer of any talent, I will only tell two short stories that touch me.<\/p>\n
Once upon a time, there was a very young Vietnamese prince at the court of Versailles.<\/p>\n
Indeed, at the age of seven, yes, at the age of seven, after three years of a perilous journey, Prince Canh was sent by his father King Nguy\u00ean-Anh, later Emperor Gia-Long, founder of my dynasty and descended from the distant family of Nguv\u00ean-Bac, protector of the arts in the 10th century, asked Louis XVI for military aid to reunite Vietnam… already! It was one of the many treaties of Versailles.<\/p>\n
One can imagine this lovely child, in traditional costume, both serious and laughing and oh so exotic! The story goes that he was the darling of the court… that he caught a cold there, that he died of it.<\/p>\n
In fact, he later commanded his father’s armies and died, admittedly very young, but at twenty-one.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_4925-726x1024.png\")
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S.A.I. Prince Bao Long’s original wordings in French<\/p>\n\t
Once upon a time, there was an emperor, a fine scholar and a poet…<\/p>\n
My ancestor, Emperor Minh-Mang, also a patron of the arts and letters, imagined a poetic way for the choice of names in the imperial family by composing a series of quatrains in which is found, in a learned order, a symbolic word for each generation.<\/p>\n
We have the dynastic name Nguy\u00ean, followed as in the tradition in Vietnam by two names whose meaning agrees to read a happy message there: it is for the first that we appeal to the poem while for the second (in does the first name) our poet left us free.<\/p>\n
Poetry therefore at the service of etiquette because he was also a remarkable administrator, playfully combining business with pleasure.<\/p>\n
I would like to end these few lines by paying homage to Bao-Dai, my father and last emperor, with whom journalists have not always been fair and expressing his tenacity in peacefully obtaining the independence of Vietnam; let’s not forget that after his abdication he was able to assume the role of supreme adviser to Ho Chi Minh who was then hoping for negotiated independence.<\/p>\n
History then was painful, but the great qualities of the Vietnamese people stood the test.<\/p>\n
S.A.I. Prince BAO LONG<\/strong><\/p>\n Courtesy Mr Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Hubert, Senior Expert, Vietnamese Art<\/a> and his publication Le Vi\u00eat Nam Des Royaumes<\/a><\/p>\n\t PETITS MOMENTS DE LA DYNASTIE NGUY\u00caN<\/strong><\/p>\n\tHeureux que cette exposition ait lieu et que je sois invit\u00e9 \u00e0 r\u00e9diger quelques lignes, mais conscient de n’\u00eatre ni historien ni \u00e9crivain d’un quelconque talent, je vais raconter seulement deux petites histoires qui me touchent. Originally excerpted from Le Vi\u00eat Nam Des Royaumes<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" S.A.I. Prince Bao Long during his inauguration, Imperial City of Hue, \u00a01939. THE PRECIOUS FLEETING MOMENTS OF THE NGUYEN DYNASTY BY S.A.I. PRINCE BAO LONG H.M. Empress Nam Phuong and H.M. Emperor Bao Dai, Imperial City of Hue, 1934 Delighted that this exhibition is taking place and that I have been invited to write a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28,105,111],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","tag-jean-francois-hubert","tag-le-viet-nam-des-royaumes","tag-s-a-i-prince-bao-long"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thucdoan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n… Il \u00e9tait une fois un tout jeune prince vietnamien \u00e0 la cour de Versailles…
\nEn effet, \u00e0 sept ans, oui, \u00e0 sept ans, apr\u00e8s trois ans d’un p\u00e9rilleux voyage, le prince Canh envoy\u00e9 par son p\u00e8re le roi Nguy\u00ean-Anh, plus tard empereur Gia-Long, fondateur de ma dynastie et issu de la lointaine famille de Nguv\u00ean-Bac protecteur des arts au X\u00b0 si\u00e8cle, demandait \u00e0 Louis XVI une aide militaire pour r\u00e9unifier le Vi\u00eat Nam… d\u00e9j\u00e0! Ce fut l’un des nombreux trait\u00e9s de Versailles.
\nOn peut imaginer ce ravissant enfant, en costume traditionnel, \u00e0 la fois grave et rieur et \u00f4 combien exotique! La petite histoire veut qu’il ait \u00e9t\u00e9 la coqueluche de la cour… qu’il y ait pris froid, qu’il en mourut.
\nEn fait il commanda par la suite les arm\u00e9es de son p\u00e8re et disparut certes fort jeune mais \u00e0 vingt et un ans.
\n… Il \u00e9tait une fois un empereur fin lettr\u00e9 et po\u00e8te…
\nMon anc\u00eatre, l’empereur Minh-Mang, m\u00e9c\u00e8ne lui aussi des arts et lettres, imagina une fa\u00e7on\n\tpo\u00e9tique pour le choix des noms dans la famille imp\u00e9riale en composant une s\u00e9rie de quatrains o\u00f9 se trouve dans un ordre savant, un mot symbolique pour chaque g\u00e9n\u00e9ration.
\nNous avons le nom dynastique Nguy\u00ean, suivi comme dans la tradition au Vi\u00eat Nam de deux noms dont le sens s’accorde pour y lire un message heureux: c’est pour le premier que nous faisons appel au po\u00e8me alors que pour le second (en fait le pr\u00e9nom) notre po\u00e8te nous laissa libres.
\nLa po\u00e9sie donc au service de l’\u00e9tiquette car il \u00e9tait aussi un remarquable administrateur joignant ici avec ludisme l’utile \u00e0 l’agr\u00e9able.
\nJe voudrais terminer ces quelques lignes en rendant hommage \u00e0 Bao-Dai, mon p\u00e8re et dernier empereur, avec qui les journalistes n’ont pas toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9quitables et dire sa t\u00e9nacit\u00e9 \u00e0 obtenir de fa\u00e7on pacifique l’ind\u00e9pendance du Vi\u00eat Nam; que l’on n’oublie pas qu’apr\u00e8s son abdication il a su assumer le r\u00f4le de conseiller supr\u00eame d’H\u00f4-Chi-Minh qui esp\u00e9rait alors une ind\u00e9pendance n\u00e9goci\u00e9e.
\nL’Histoire ensuite a \u00e9t\u00e9 douloureuse mais les tr\u00e8s grandes qualit\u00e9s du peuple vietnamien ont r\u00e9sist\u00e9 \u00e0 l’\u00e9preuve.
\nS.A.I. le Prince BAO LONG<\/strong>\n\t