Vietnam/France: Pigneau de Béhaine (2 November 1741 - 9 October 1799). Oil on canvas painting by Maupérin (- 9 June 1806), 1787. Pierre Joseph Georges Pigneau, commonly known as Pigneau de Béhaine, also Pierre Pigneaux and Bá Đa Lộc, was a French Catholic priest best known for his role in assisting Nguyễn Ánh (later Emperor Gia Long) to establish the Nguyễn Dynasty in Vietnam after the Tây Sơn rebellion. Pigneau was a missionary sent abroad by the Paris Foreign Mission Society, arriving in Cochinchina (Southern Vietnam) in 1767.

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