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Annam (French protectorate)

Protectorate of Annam
Protectorat d'Annam (French)
Xứ bảo hộ Trung Kỳ (Vietnamese)
處保護中圻 (Chữ Hán)
1883-1948
Motto: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité"
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem: "La Marseillaise"
Royal anthem: Đăng đàn cung
(English: "The Emperor Mounts His Throne")
Imperial seal
皇帝之寶
(Hoàng Đế chi bảo)

(Until 1945)
Administrative divisions of the French Protectorate of Annam in 1920.
Administrative divisions of the French Protectorate of Annam in 1920.
StatusProtectorate of France; constituent territory of French Indochina
CapitalHuế
Common languagesCham, Bahnar, Rade, Jarai, Stieng, Mnong, Koho, Chinese (Notably Cantonese, Hakka), French, Vietnamese
Religion
Mahayana Buddhism
Confucianism
Taoism
Catholicism
Folk religion
Hinduism
Islam
Demonym(s)Annamite
GovernmentAbsolute monarchy under colonial administration
Resident Superior 
• 1886–1888
Charles Dillon
• 1947–1949
Henri Pierre Joseph Marie Lebris
Emperor 
• 1884–1885
Hàm Nghi
• 1889–1907
Thành Thái
• 1916–1925
Khải Định
• 1925–1945
Bảo Đại
LegislatureNone (rule by decree)
House of Representatives (de jure advisory body)
History 
1883
6 June 1884
25 August 1945
1948
• Élysée Accords signed on March 8; ratification by the French in 1950, formally recognising the end of the protectorate over Vietnam[1]
1949
CurrencyVietnamese cash,
French Indochinese piastre
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Empire of Đại Nam
State of Vietnam
Today part ofVietnam

Annam (chữ Hán: 安南; alternate spelling: Anam), or Trung Kỳ (中圻), was a 1883-1948 French protectorate encompassing what is now Central Vietnam. Like the French protectorate of Tonkin, it was nominally ruled by the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty. Before the protectorate's establishment, the name Annam was used in the West to refer to Vietnam as a whole; Vietnamese people were referred to as Annamites.[citation needed] The protectorate of Annam became a part of French Indochina in 1887. The region had a dual system of French and Vietnamese administration. The government of the Nguyễn Dynasty still nominally ruled Annam and Tonkin as the Empire of Đại Nam, with the emperor residing in Huế. In 1948 with the Hạ Long Bay Agreement, the protectorate was merged in the Provisional Central Government of Vietnam, which was replaced the next year by the newly established State of Vietnam.[2] The French legally maintained the protectorate until they formally signed over sovereignty to the Bảo Đại and the government of the State of Vietnam in 1950 after signing the Élysée Accords in 1949.[1] The region was divided between communist North Vietnam and anti-communist South Vietnam under the terms of the Geneva Accord of 1954.

  1. ^ a b Le Monde illustré - Le Vietnam à cessé d'être protectorat français cérémonie à l'hôtel de ville de Saïgon avec l'empereur Bao Daï et le commissaire de la République M. Pignon (Vietnam ceased to be a French protectorate, ceremony at Saigon City Hall with Emperor Bao Dai and the Commissioner of the Republic, Mr Pignon.) Published: 1950. Quote: "Au cours d'une cérémonie qui s'est déroulée à l'hôtel de ville de Saigon, S.M. l'empereur Bao Daï et le haut commisaire de la République M. Pignon, ont signé la coxcation pour l'application des accords du 8 mars 1949, qui transfère au Vietnam, indépendant au sein de l'Union française, les pouvoies drenus par la France et remet au souverain le contrôle de l'administracion.". (in French).
  2. ^ https://mjp.univ-perp.fr/constit/vn1946.htm#1948

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