In August 1945, Bao Dai, the emperor of the revolutionary Vietnamese Empire, abdicated and later followed Ho Chi Minh to serve in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in Hanoi. After seeing the French come back, Emperor Bao Dai took advantage of his visit to Chongqing to leave Vietnam. After the French learned about it, they supported the restoration of Emperor Bao Dai in 1947 and established the monarchy of Vietnam, with Bao Dai serving as the head of state (head of state). The picture shows Emperor Bao Dai visiting Lang Son Province on the Sino-Vietnamese border in 1950 as Minister of State of Vietnam.
In 1950, Emperor Bao Dai, as the Minister of State of Vietnam, visited Lang Son Province on the Sino-Vietnamese border at the request of the French. The purpose of Bao Dai's trip was to publicize to the Vietnamese that Vietnam already had a State of Vietnam established by the original emperor, and The Democratic Republic of Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh was not recognized. Therefore, at this time, Ho Chi Minh was seeking help from China, asking China to help him fight against France and save the country. The picture shows Emperor Bao Dai conferring the flag in Lang Son Province.
At that time, Emperor Bao Dai visited a monument in Lang Son Province where the French army had fought with the Japanese army. During the Japanese occupation in 1945, the French army had belonged to Charles de Gaulle. At that time, the French army became an anti-Japanese force and fought with the Japanese army in the mountainous areas on the Sino-Vietnamese border. fight as a guerrilla. This group of French troops suffered heavy casualties. After the war, France set up a monument in Lang Son Province to commemorate it. The picture shows Bao Dai visiting the French Army Monument in Lang Son Province.
Bao Dai, the restored Prime Minister of Vietnam, laid a wreath in front of a memorial commemorating the victims of the "March 1945" of the French Army in Lang Son Province. At that time, Bao Dai's move could be said to help the French deal with his former partner Ho Chi Minh.
At that time, Emperor Bao Dai visited this Sino-Vietnamese border province, and the people of Lang Son rushed to watch the last emperor of Vietnam.
But Bao Dai’s visit to the Sino-Vietnamese border provinces is a big deal, because historically there have been very few emperors here in Vietnam. Except for the emperors of the declining Le and Mo dynasties, the emperors of the Nguyen Dynasty went as far as Lao Cai, and most of them only accepted the canonization of the Qing Dynasty in Hanoi. The envoy was crowned King of Vietnam.
When Bao Da visited Lang Son, the French accompanied him throughout the whole process, which was actually a kind of surveillance. At that time, the title of emperor of Bao Dai was only an honorific title within the territory of the dynasty, while in other Vietnamese territories, he was only treated as the head of state and was called the chief of state.
Bao Dai abdicated in Hue in August 1945. At that time, he gave the golden seal and sword, the emperor's treasures representing power, to the Viet Minh representatives. When the French returned to Vietnam at the end of 1946, the Viet Minh were too late to take them away, but the French regained them. When supporting Bao Dai's restoration, the French returned the sword symbolizing imperial power and the emperor's treasure to Bao Dai in Hanoi in 1950. . The picture shows the French returning the sword and the emperor's treasure gold to Baoda at that time.
