Marcelle Laloë

Marcelle Aimée Léonie Laloë (Algiers, July 2, 1884 - Château de Losse,

Thonac Thonac () is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. The area is notable for the Château de Losse and the cemetery contains the grave of Vietnamese Emperor Hàm Nghi. Population See also *Commune ...

, Dordogne, September 5, 1974) was a French woman who was the wife of Emperor

Hàm Nghi Emperor Hàm Nghi (, vi-hantu, lit. "entirely right", ar, هام نغي; 3 August 1872 – 4 January 1943), personal name Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Lịch, also Nguyễn Phúc Minh, was the eighth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty. He reign ...

of the Nguyễn dynasty of

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. She was the daughter of Francis Laloë, President of the Appeal Court of Algiers, and Suzanne Ving. On November 4, 1904, she married Emperor Ham Nghi of

in Algiers, at the Cathedral of St Philip. Rebel to the French, her husband was captured in November 1888 and sent in exile to Algiers, where he arrived with a small retinue on 13 January 1889. They first lived in a rented villa and then purchased the Villa des Pins in El Biar, an affluent district of the capital 4-kilometer from the town center. They had three children, Prince Minh-Duc, Princess Nhu May and Princess Nhu Lý. She is buried in the cemetery of Thonac, near her husband. 1884 births 1974 deaths Nguyen dynasty French people in French Algeria {{France-bio-stub