Nguyễn Văn Xuân
Nguyễn Văn Xuân (April 3, 1892 Vietnam

Vietnam

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 - 1989 France

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) was President of the Provisional Central Government of Vietnam from 1948 to 1949 during the end of French

France

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 rule in Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

.

First Indochina War

On April 1, 1947, he was promoted to Brigadier General

Brigadier General

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 (two-star general, entry level for a general officer in the French army ranking system) of colonial troops, a local army with French commanding officers.

After the First Indochina War

First Indochina War

The First Indochina War was fought in French Indochina from December 19, 1946, until August 1, 1954, between the French Union's French Far East...

, he took exile in metropolitan France

France

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, where he died in 1989.

See also

• State of Vietnam
  State of Vietnam
  The State of Vietnam was a state that claimed authority over all of Vietnam during the First Indochina War, and replaced the Provisional Central Government of Vietnam . The provisional government was a brief transitional administration between colonial Cochinchina and an independent state...