Prince Cảnh
| Nguyễn Phước Cảnh 阮福景 |
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| Crown Prince of Annam | |||||
Close-up of Nguyễn Phúc Cảnh, at the age of seven, in Paris, France. Painting in 1787 by Maupérin, located at the Paris Foreign Missions Society.
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| Born | 1780 | ||||
| Died | 1801 | ||||
| Spouse | Tống Thị Quyên | ||||
| Issue | Nguyễn Phúc Mỹ Đường Nguyễn Phúc Mỹ Thùy |
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| Dynasty | Nguyễn Dynasty | ||||
| Father | Emperor Gia Long | ||||
| Mother | Empress Thừa Thiên | ||||
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| Nguyễn Phước Cảnh |
Nguyễn Phước Cảnh (阮福景, 1780–1801), also known as Crown Prince Cảnh (東宮景), was the eldest son of the Annamese Prince Nguyễn Phước Ánh, the future Emperor Gia Long. At the age of seven, he famously visited France with the French Catholic Father Pigneau de Béhaine to sign an alliance between France and Vietnam. Although Prince Cảnh was the legitimate heir to the throne, he died before his father, and none of his descendants ascended the throne after his half-brother Nguyễn Phúc Đảm was chosen by Gia Long.
Born April 6, 1780, Nguyễn Phúc Cảnh was the second son of Nguyễn Phúc Ánh and his first wife, Empress Tống Thị Lan (his older brother died soon after birth).
In 1785, at the age of five, Nguyễn Phúc Cảnh accompanied the French Catholic Father Pigneau de Béhaine to France in order to sign a treaty of alliance between France and Vietnam, the 1788 Treaty of Versailles. Prince Canh was also accompanied by two mandarins, a cousin, who became a Catholic known as Prince Pascal, soldiers and servants. The party reached Pondicherry in February 1785. Unable to obtain help, they left Pondicherry for France in July 1786. which they reached in February 1787.
The party met with King Louis XVI on May 5 or 6, 1787. The Treaty of Versailles (1787) was signed on 28 November 1787. Prince Cảnh created a sensation at the court of Louis XVI, leading the famous hairdresser Léonard to create a hairstyle in his honour "au prince de Cochinchine". His portrait was made in France by Maupérin, and is now on display at the Séminaire des Missions Étrangères in Paris. Prince Canh dazzled the Court and even played with the son of Louis XVI, Louis-Joseph, Dauphin of France.
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