Marcelle Laloë

Marcelle Aimée Léonie Laloë (July 2, 1884, in Algiers – September 5, 1974, in Château de Losse, Thonac, Dordogne) was a French woman who was the wife of Emperor Hàm Nghi of the

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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 Hàm Nghi of

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, 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

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, an affluent district of the capital 4-kilometer from the town center. 1884 births 1974 deaths Nguyen dynasty French people of colonial Algeria 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.{{France-bio-stub