Henri Roussel de Courcy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French officer
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Place of Birth: Orléans, Centre-Val de Loire, France
About Henri Roussel de Courcy
- Philippe Marie Henri Roussel, count of Courcy (30 May 1827 – 8 November 1887) was a French divisional general.
- De Courcy was the governor of Nancy in 1881 which was an important place next to Lorraine. De Courcy served as the commander of Tonkin Expeditionary Corps and took part in Tonkin Campaign from 1885 to 1887.He was appointed Protector of Annam.
- He arrived at Hu? in July 1885, summoned Nguy?n Van Tu?ng and Tôn Th?t Thuy?t, both were regents of Vietnamese royal court, to his residence for a discussion on the presentation of his credentials to the Emperor Hàm Nghi.
- Thuy?t was inarticulate and was absence on the plea of sick.
- Tu?ng was good at diplomatic parlance and came to meet de Courcy.
- After being told that Thuy?t was sick, de Courcy's response was that he should have attended the meeting regardless and threatened to arrest him.
- During the discussion, de Courcy demanded that the central gate should be opened to let French troops go through, and that the Emperor would have to come down from his throne to greet him.
- Tu?ng replied it was against the principles of Confucianism rite, and demanded that French soldiers should go through side gates, but was rejected by him.
- Empress Dowager T? D? sent gifts to de Courcy in order to persuade him but was also rejected.
- Thuy?t launched a failure ambush against French and was defeated by him.
- Thuy?t and Hàm Nghi escaped from Hu? and took refuge in a mountainous military base in Tân S?.
- There, Hàm Nghi called on his people to revolt against French colonists.
- A large-scale Vietnamese insurgency which now called C?n Vuong movement spread throughout the whole Vietnam until 1889.During the emperor's absence, de Courcy appointed Nguy?n Phúc Miên Ð?nh (Prince Th? Xuân) as puppet "Prince Regent" (giám qu?c), and appointed Nguy?n H?u Ð?, Phan Ðình Bình, Nguy?n Van Tu?ng as Grand Secretaries.
- In September, he exiled Tu?ng to Poulo Condore, and installed Ð?ng Khánh as new emperor.
- De Courcy failed to put down C?n Vuong insurgency, and was replaced by Paul Bert in April 1886.
- He came back to France, and died in Paris in the next year.
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