Bao Dai

B?o ??i (??) (October 22, 1913 – July 30, 1997) was the last Emperor of Vietnam, the 13th and last Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty.

Quotes

• "What they call a Bao Dai solution turns out to be just a French solution."
• "I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one."
• "If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war."
• "The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord."
• "I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people." - Emperor Bao Dai when informed that the Allies had placed the Japanese garrison at his disposal to defend the Imperial City from the Viet Minh.