page_title: Đồng Khánh
section_title: Rule
hierarchical_section_title: Đồng Khánh / Rule
caption_attribution_description: Tiếng Việt: Tranh vẽ lễ xướng danh tại trường thi Nam Định năm Mậu Tý (1888) dành cho các thí sinh trúng tuyển làm cử nhân.English: 1888 Regional Examnination in Nam-định with mandarins seated on high chairs officiating the pronouncement ceremony of the successful laureates.Français&#160;: Cérémonia de la proclamation des lauréats du concours des lettrés: Les mandarins éxaminateurs pendant l'appel des élus.
context_page_description: Đồng Khánh, born Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Kỷ or Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Đường, also known as Chánh Mông, was the ninth emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam. He reigned three years between 1885 and 1889. His royal temple name was Cảnh Tông.
context_section_description: After the French armies captured the city of Huế and the Purple Forbidden City fell to the French, hen court regents Nguyễn Văn Tường and Tôn Thất Thuyết took the young Emperor Hàm Nghi escaped from the Purple Forbidden City of Huế, and took him to the mountains as the figurehead of a revolutionary movement against the French. To take away the legitimacy of Hàm Nghi, general de Courcy and résident de Champeaux of France asked the empress dowager Nghi Thiên to enthrone prince Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Kỷ (Hàm Nghi's elder half brother). In 19 September 1885, Prince Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Kỷ had to go to the governor of Annam to attend his cornoration, he became the ninth emperor of Đại Nam with the era name of  Đồng Khánh.
  The emperor showed himself as the Pro-French ruler and this thing was also mentioned in Diary of Trần Trọng Kim:
  "Emperor Đồng Khánh had a gentle personality, loved to wear luxurious jewelry and adopted French culture therefore French colonial government gave favor to him. After the dethroned emperor Hàm Nghi fled to Quảng Bình,  Đồng Khánh accepted the French request of travelling to Quảng Bình to persuade Hàm Nghi and his loyal subjects surrender but unsuccessful. After that, Hàm Nghi was betrayed by his loyal subject Trương Quang Ngọc, then he was captured by French and exiled in Algérie."
caption: Imperial examination at Nam Định during Đồng Khánh's era in (1888).
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