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Empress Nam Phương (14 December 1914 – 16 December 1963), born Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan, later Imperial Princess Nam Phương, was the first and primary wife of Bảo Đại, the last emperor of Vietnam, from 1934 until her death. She was also the second and last empress consort (''hoàng hậu'') of the Nguyễn Dynasty. ==Background== Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan was born in Gò Công, a Mekong Delta town in what was then the French colony of Cochinchina, one of the three areas (the others being the protectorates of Annam and Tonkin) that composed the Union of French Indochina.〔"Annam Ruler to Wed Commoner 20 March; Daughter of Wealthy Cochin-China Family Will Be Bride of Europeanized Emperor", The New York Times, 9 March 1934, page 21〕〔Commoner is Wed to Annam's Ruler", The New York Times, 20 March 1934〕 Her father, Pierre Nguyễn Hữu-Hào, described as a wealthy merchant,〔"Annam Ruler Proclaims His Bride-to-Be Is Worthy", ''The New York Times'', 10 March 1934〕 had been born into a poor Roman Catholic family in Gò Công.〔(Letter from the empress's nephew Pascal Lê Phát Đạt to the writer Georges Nguyễn Cao Đức, regarding the family's ancestry )〕 Through an introduction from the Archbishop of Saigon, he became secretary to the billionaire Lê Phát Đạt, Duke of Long-My, and eventually married his employer's daughter, Marie Lê Thị Binh, and inherited his title.〔〔R.B. Smith, "The Vietnamese Elite of French Cochinchina, 1943", ''Modern Asian Studies'', Vol. 6, No. 4 (1972), pp. 459-482.〕 A naturalized French citizen, Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan, who was known as Mariette, studied at the Couvent des Oiseaux, an aristocratic Catholic school located in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, where she was sent at the age of 12.() She was a distant cousin of her future husband, the emperor.〔"Wedding and Thanks", ''Time'', 2 April 1934.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nam Phương」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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