Nguyễn Hữu Bài

Nguyễn Hữu Bài (28 September 1863 – 10 July 1935) was a Minister of the Interior in the Royal Court of Emperor Bảo Đại.[1][2][3]

Nguyễn Hữu Bài
In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Nguyễn, but is often simplified to Nguyen in English-language text. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Hữu Bài.

Bài was raised in Confucian ideals but was a Roman Catholic. He had taught Ngô Đình Diệm when he was a member of the royal court in the imperial capital of Huế, Vietnam. When the 13-year-old Bảo Đại returned to his studies in France after ascending the throne in 1926 Nguyễn Hữu Bài resumed leadership of the council of ministers of Annam, the protectorate occupying the central two thirds of French Indochina.[4]

Lý Thường Kiệt Street in Hanoi (modern Nguyễn Thái Học Street) became known as phố Sinh Từ ("Living Temple Street"), due to a temple built to honour Bài while he was still alive, until 1908 when it was renamed Rue Duvillier by the French.

References
  1. Keith 2012, p. 98.
  2. Keith 2012, p. 104-105.
  3. Andre N. Van Chau. The miracle of hope: Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, political prisoner, prophet of peace. 2003.
  4. Chapuis 2000, p. 27.

Bibliography
  • Chapuis, Oscar (2000). The Last Emperors of Vietnam. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-31170-6. OCLC 42296168.
  • Keith, Charles (2012). Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-95382-7.


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