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Artot Auguste late 19th century early 20th century
Very rare portrait of the young princess Huang Thi Thé, daughter of Dé Tham who was, from the beginning of the 1880s until his assassination on February 10, 1913, a fighter in the Tonkinese rebellion against the French colonial presence, first as a simple soldier, then as a group leader and finally as the sole leader. After the death of her father, she was the adopted daughter of Mr. Albert Sarraut, Governor General of French Indochina and Minister of the Interior, and godson of the President of the Republic Paul Doumer. The French authorities feared that his daughter Hoang Thi Thé would become the new standard-bearer of the armed patriotic movement in the Annam Empire. It was therefore decided to remove her from her native country and send her to France where she received a bourgeois education in several successive Catholic institutions. After that, her life path led her from the highest strata of the Parisian jet set to the most tragic misery.
SOURCE: Claude Gendre, Hoang Thi Thé daughter of Dé Tham and player of the French colonial policy.
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