Nguyễn Ái Quốc | Red Night Wiki

CouncillorNguyễn Ái Quốc
Official Portrait of the Father of the Republic
Councillor
In office1920-1925
Constituency	13th arrondissement of Paris
Personal details
Died	unknown
Resting place	Tomb of the Soldiers of the Homeland
Citizenship	Union of Indochina French Communal Republic
Political party	SFIO SFIC Young Revolutionary Comrades Society

Nguyễn Ái Quốc (1890-????), born Nguyễn Sinh Cung (or Nguyễn Sinh Côn - disputed). Also known throughout his early adult life as Nguyễn Tất Thành and other various norm de guerre that he adopted across his time travelling the world like Nguyễn Văn Ba, Henry Trần (Tchen), Paul Tất Thành, Albert de Pouvourville, Li Annan (Lý An Nam),.. etc. Nguyễn Ái Quốc was considered the most important Indochinese nationalist and revolutionary in the later parts of the early 1900s. He is immortalised as the Father of the Nation for the Union of Republics, who founded and coordinated the various efforts that led to the organisations that created the Republic.

Early life[]

Nguyễn Ái Quốc was born in 1890, Kim Sen Commune, the Empire of Annam to a family of a poor Confucian scholar, his father achieved rank in the 1901 Imperial Examination and was made a provincial mandarin. However he was known for nationalist and anti-colonialism attitude that eventually led to clashes with the Imperial Court and dismissal. Young Nguyen Ai Quoc attended a dual Franco-Vietnamese education and the prestigious École Primaire Supérieure (National College of Hue). In 1910, he moved to south to take up teaching at a school founded by the nationalist Société de Lien Thanh. In 1911, he moved to Saigon and attended the École des Mécaniciens Asiatiques. In the same year he took up a job in the kitchen of the liner Amiral Latouche-Tréville.

Finding the homeland[]

After he departed the port of Saigon in 1911, Nguyen Ai Quoc travelled across the world visiting a large number of countries in South America, Africa, Britain and the US. He moved to France and joined the SFIO.In the following establishment of the Liberal-SFIO government, in his most famous action that made the name Nguyen Ai Quoc known, to send the document Revendications du peuple annamite (Demands of the People of Annam) to the hand of each government minister in the name of the Association des Patriotes Annamites. In the followed French Civil War, Nguyen Ai Quoc moved to Britain for a few years before returning to join the newly created French Section of the Communist International (SFIC) and ran for a seat to represent the Union intercoloniale – Association des indigènes de toutes les colonies and the French-Vietnamese workers. Under the support of various Vietnamese association like the Comité de Défense des Travailleurs Annamites, Association Amicale des Travailleurs Indochinois,..etc. Nguyen Ai Quoc was elected for the 13th arrondissement of Paris. He served one term and married Colette Jacqueline, a french-american girl he known since Britain and then departed for Siam in 1925, from which he would leave for China.