Ngô Đình Lệ Thủy (1945 – April 12, 1967) was the daughter of South Vietnam’s First lady
Madame Nhu
Trần Lệ Xuân (22 August 1924 – 24 April 2011), more popularly known in English as Madame Nhu, was the ''de facto'' First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963. She was the wife of Ngô Đình Nhu, who was the brother and chief advisor ...
and
Ngô Đình Nhu
Ngô Đình Nhu (; 7 October 19102 November 1963; baptismal name Jacob) was a Vietnamese archivist and politician. He was the younger brother and chief political advisor of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm. Although he held n ...
, the head of the
Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party.
Biography
On November 2, 1963, at the time of the assassinations of her father and her Uncle
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ngô Đình Diệm ( or ; ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician. He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955), and then served as the first president of South Vietnam (Republic o ...
she had been with her mother in
Beverly Hills, California, since October, and preparing for a trip to Italy. The new government of
South Vietnam refused to issue her a visa to return and she resettled in Europe with her mother.
Lệ Thủy was attending law school in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
, when on April 12, 1967, at the age of 22, she was killed in an automobile accident in
Longjumeau
Longjumeau () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris.
Inhabitants of Longjumeau are known as ''Longjumellois'' ().
History
Longjumeau Party School
In 1911, Lenin founded the Longjumeau ...
, France.
Just over 45 years later, her younger (and only) sister
Ngô Đình Lệ Quyên was killed in an April 16, 2012 automobile accident in Rome, Italy.
Notes
External links
Photos of Ngô Đình Lệ Thủy
1945 births
1967 deaths
Vietnamese people of the Vietnam War
Vietnamese Roman Catholics
Ngo family
Road incident deaths in France
French people of Vietnamese descent
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