Pierre Pigneau de Behaine





































Pigneau de Béhaine

Pigneau de Behaine MEP portrait.jpg
The 1787 painting of Pigneau de Behaine by Maupérin is visible at the Paris Foreign Missions Society

Personal
Born November 2, 1741

Origny-en-Thiérache, France
Died October 9, 1799(1799-10-09) (aged 57)

Thị Nại, Vietnam[1]
Religion Roman Catholic
Senior posting
Based in Vietnam
Consecration February 24, 1774 by Bernardo de São Caetano
Predecessor Guillaume Piguel
Successor Jean Labartette

Pierre Joseph Georges Pigneau (2 November 1741[2] in Origny-en-Thiérache – 9 October 1799, in Qui Nhơn), commonly known as Pigneau de Béhaine (French: [piɲo də be.ɛn]), also Pierre Pigneaux, Bá Đa Lộc ("Pedro"[3]百多祿), Bách Đa Lộc (伯多祿) and Bi Nhu ("Pigneau"[4]悲柔), 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.




Contents






  • 1 Early life


  • 2 Superior of the College General (1767–1774)


  • 3 Encounter with Nguyễn Ánh


  • 4 Embassy to France


  • 5 Return to Vietnam


  • 6 Death


  • 7 Works


  • 8 See also


  • 9 Notes


  • 10 References





Early life


Pierre Pigneau was born in Origny-en-Thiérache (later Aisne, France), where the family of his mother lived. His father's family owned a small estate named Béhaine, in the nearby parish of Marle. Despite the particule "de Béhaine" in his name, Pigneau was not of noble extraction, and it seems the particule first appeared only in the 1787 Treaty of Versailles.[5]


Pigneau de Behaine was trained as a missionary and sent abroad by the Paris Foreign Missions Society (Séminaire des Missions Étrangères). He left France from the harbour of Lorient in December 1765, to work in southern Vietnam. He landed in Pondicherry, then a French possession in India, on 21 June 1766.[6]


Pigneau had arrived just prior to the Burmese capture of Ayutthaya in Siam. After waiting for a few months in the Portuguese colony of Macau, Pigneau travelled on a Chinese ship to reach the small coastal town Hà Tiên in Cochinchina (Southern Vietnam) near the Cambodian border, set up by missionaries who had been displaced by the Burmese. He arrived there in March 1767.[7]



Superior of the College General (1767–1774)


In Ha Tien, Pigneau worked as head of the Seminary of the Holy Angels, the Seminary established in Asia by the Paris Foreign Missions Society, which had relocated from Ayutthaya in Siam following the 1765 Burmese invasion, with approximately forty students of Chinese, Siamese, and Vietnamese extraction.




A page of the 1773 Annamite–Latin manuscript dictionary created by Pigneau de Behaine.


In 1768, the missionaries were jailed for three months when Siamese authorities complained to the local ruler Mạc Thiên Tứ that the school had afforded shelter to a fugitive Siamese prince. Pigneau was put into a cangue, a wooden and iron frame fastened around his limbs weighing eight pounds.[8] He ignored family requests to return to France, saying that his missionary work was more important than a comfortable life. In 1769, the school was attacked by Chinese and Cambodian pirates, who massacred some of the students and burnt down the establishment...[9][9] Pigneau was forced to flee in December 1769 with the survivors to Pondicherry, then a French territory, after a long sea journey through Malacca. The College was established a few miles from Pondicherry, in Virampatnam.




Pigneau de Behaine's dictionary was published in 1838 by Mgr Jean-Louis Taberd.[10]


While in Pondicherry, Pigneau continued mastering Chinese and Vietnamese languages until he was fully conversant with both.[11] In 1773, he compiled a Vietnamese-Latin dictionary with the help of eight southern Vietnamese,[11] following in the footsteps of Alexandre de Rhodes. His work, Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum, would be published in 1838 by Mgr Jean-Louis Taberd.[10]


Pigneau de Behaine was appointed Titular Bishop of Adran (Adraha in Syria,[12]in partibus infidelium), and Apostolic Vicar of Cochinchina on 24 September 1771.[13] After his ordination on 24 February 1774 in São Tomé near Madras,[14][15] he went to Macau to gather more staff before returning to resume his work in Ha Tien. In Macau, he was able to publish and print a catechism in Vietnamese (containing an introduction in Chinese, the body of the text in the Vietnamese alphabet, and a translation in Latin), and despatched a copy to Rome.[10] He left Macau on 1 March 1775, and reached Ha Tien later in the month, where he again re-established missionary operations.[16]


In 1775-76, Pigneau attempted to convert the Stieng people, but the missionaries he sent suffered greatly, and either fell ill or returned.[17]



Encounter with Nguyễn Ánh





Episcopal seal of Mgr Pigneau de Behaine.


In 1777, the Tây Sơn brothers attacked Saigon and eliminated almost the entire Nguyễn dynasty, with the fifteen-year-old Nguyễn Ánh managing to escape into the far south. He took refuge at Pigneau's seminary from September to October before both were forced to flee to the island of Pulo Panjang in the Gulf of Siam. The move was a political step taken by Pigneau to align himself with Nguyễn Ánh, allowing himself a foray into politics. He became less of a missionary and more of a politician thereafter.


In November 1777, Nguyễn Ánh was able to recapture Saigon, and in 1778 pursued the retreating Tây Sơn as far as Bình Thuận.[18]


In neighbouring Cambodia, a pro-Cochinchinese revolt erupted to topple the pro-Siam king Ang Non. In 1780, Cochinchinese troops intervened, and Pigneau helped them procure weapons from the Portuguese. The Bishop attracted accusations by the Portuguese of manufacturing weapons for the Cochinchinese, especially grenades, a new weapon for Southeast Asia.[18] Pigneau de Behaine also organized the supply of three Portuguese warships for Nguyễn Ánh.[19] In his activities, Pigneau was supported by a French adventurer, Manuel.[19]




Pigneau de Behaine and Nguyễn Ánh took refuge in the island of Phú Quốc.


In 1782, the Tây Sơn led a new offensive to the South. Manuel died in his command of a warship in the Saigon river against Tây Sơn troops.[19] The defeat, with its battle plan deemed faulty, towers high in the list of setbacks suffered. Nguyễn Ánh was forced to retreat to the island of Phú Quốc. In October 1782, the tide turned again and Nguyễn Ánh and Pigneau returned to Saigon.[20]


In March 1783, the Nguyễn were again defeated, and Nguyễn Ánh and Pigneau once more set sail for Phú Quốc. Sanctuary was at once both fleeting and illusory. They had to escape again when their hideout was discovered, being chased from island to island until they reached Siam. Pigneau de Behaine visited the Siamese court in Bangkok in late 1783.[21] Nguyễn Ánh also arrived there in February 1784, where he enlisted an army to accompany him back to Vietnam.[22] In January 1785 however the Siamese fleet met with disaster against the Tây Sơn in the Mekong river.[22]


Nguyễn Ánh again took refuge with the Siamese court, and again tried to seek help from the Siamese.[23] Resolving to muster any support he could from Western powers.,[24] Nguyễn Ánh asked Pigneau to appeal for French aid, and pledged to allow Pigneau to take his son Prince Cảnh with him. Pigneau in return attempted to obtain assistance from Manila, but the party of Dominicans he sent was captured by the Tây Sơn.[24] From Pondicherry, he also sent a request for help to the Portuguese Senate in Macao, which would ultimately lead to the signature of a Treaty of Alliance between Nguyễn Ánh and the Portuguese on 18 December 1786 in Bangkok.[25]



Embassy to France


The party reached Pondicherry in February 1785.[26] The French administration in Pondicherry, led by the interim Governor Coutenceau des Algrains, successor of Bussy, seconded by Captain d'Entrecasteaux, was resolutely opposed to intervening in southern Vietnam, stating that it was not in the national interest. In July 1786, Pigneau was allowed to travel back to France to ask the royal court directly for assistance. News of his activities reached Rome where he was denounced by the Spanish Franciscans. Pigneau at that point offered Prince Cảnh and his political mandate to the Portuguese. They left Pondicherry for France in July 1786.[27] which they reached in February 1787.[28]




Portrait of crown prince Nguyễn Phúc Cảnh in France, 1787.


Arriving in February 1787 with the child prince Canh at the court of Louis XVI in Versailles,[29] Pigneau had difficulty in gathering support for a French expedition to install Nguyễn Ánh on the throne. This was due to the poor financial state of the country prior to the French Revolution. Pigneau was helped by Pierre Poivre who had been involved previously in French interests in Vietnam.


Eventually, he was able to seduce military figures with precise instructions as to the conditions of warfare in Indochina and materiel for the proposed campaign. He explained how France would be able to "dominate the seas of China and of the archipelago." The party met with King Louis XVI, Minister of the Navy de Castries and Minister of Foreign Affairs Montmorin on May 5 or 6, 1787.[30] 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".[31] His portrait was made in France by Maupérin, and is now on display at the Séminaire des Missions Étrangères in Paris. Prince Cảnh dazzled the Court and even played with the son of Louis XVI, Louis-Joseph, Dauphin of France, who was about the same age.[32][33]




Signatures of the 1787 Treaty of Versailles: Montmorin, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Navy, and Evèque d'Adran, i.e. Pigneau de Béhaine.[34]


By November, his constant pressure had proved effective. On 21 November 1787, the Treaty of Versailles was concluded between France and Cochinchina in Nguyễn Ánh's name. Four frigates, 1650 fully equipped French soldiers and 250 Indian sepoys were promised in return for Pulo Condore and harbour access at Tourane (Da Nang). De Fresne was supposed to be the leader of the expedition.[35]


The French government, on the eve of the French Revolution, was in dreadful financial trouble,[36] and saw its position weakened even more with the outbreak of civil war in Holland.[37] French enthusiasm for Pigneau's plan was severely dampened.[38] A few days after the treaty was signed, the foreign minister sent instructions on 2 December 1787 to the Governor of Pondicherry Thomas Conway, which left the execution of the treaty to his own appreciation of the situation in Asia, stating that he was "free not to accomplish the expedition, or to delay it, according to his own opinion"[39] Louis XVI himself told Pigneau that Conway was appointed Governor of Pondicherry simply to remove him from Europe.



Return to Vietnam




The Citadel of Saigon was built by Olivier de Puymanel according to the designs of Théodore Lebrun, following the principles of Vauban, in 1790.





Jean-Marie Dayot (left) took a leading role in the Navy of Nguyễn Ánh.


The party left France in December 1787 on board the Dryade,[40] commanded by M. de Kersaint and accompanied by the Pandour, commanded by M. de Préville. They would again disembark in Pondicherry from May 1788 to July 1789.[41] The Dryade was ordered by Conway to continue to Poulo Condor to meet with Nguyễn Ánh and deliver him 1,000 muskets bought in France and Father Paul Nghi, a Cochinchinese missionary devotee of Mgr Pigneau.


However, Pigneau found the governor of Pondicherry unwilling to further fulfill the agreement. Although the Royal Council had already decided in October 1788 to endorse Conway, Pigneau was not informed until April. Pigneau was forced to use funds raised in France and enlist French volunteers. Of this duplicity, he defiantly noted: "I shall make the revolution in Cochinchina alone." He rejected an offer from the English, and raised money from French merchants in the region. Conway finally provided two ships to Pigneau, the Méduse, commanded by François Étienne de Rosily-Mesros,[42] and another frigate.[43] Pigneau used the raised funds to equip two more ships with weapons and ammunition, which he named the Long ("Dragon"), commanded by Jean-Baptiste Chaigneau, and the Phụng ("Phoenix"), commanded by Philippe Vannier, and enticed volunteers and deserters to man the vessels.[42]Jean-Marie Dayot deserted the Pandour and was put in charge of supplies, transporting weapons and ammunitions on his ship the St. Esprit. Rosily, who had been commanding the Méduse deserted with 120 of his men, and was put in charge of recruitments.[42]





Jean-Baptiste Chaigneau in mixed Franco-Vietnamese uniform.


Pigneau's expedition left for Vietnam on June 19, 1789 and arrived at Vũng Tàu on 24 July 1789.[42] The foreign contingent helped to consolidate southern Vietnam and modernized its army, navy and fortifications. Olivier de Puymanel, a former officer of the Dryade who has deserted in Poulo Condor, built in 1790 the Citadel of Saigon and in 1793 the Citadel of Diên Khánh according to the principles of Vauban. He also instructed Vietnamese troops in the modern use of artillery, and implemented European infantry methods in the Vietnamese army of Nguyễn Phúc Ánh.[44] In 1792, Olivier de Puymanel was commanding an army of 600 men who had been trained with European techniques.[45] Puymanel is said to have trained the 50,000 men of Nguyen's army.[46] French bombs were used at the siege of Qui Nhơn in 1793.[47]


French Navy officers such as Jean-Marie Dayot and Jean-Baptiste Chaigneau were used to drill the navy. By 1792, a large naval fleet was formed, with two European warships and 15 frigates of composite design.[48] In 1792, Dayot attacked the strategically important port of Qui Nhơn, opening the way to the Cochinchinese ships which then defeated the Tây Sơn fleet.[49] In 1793, Dayot led a raid in which 60 Tây Sơn galleys were destroyed.[49]


From 1794, Pigneau took part in all campaigns, accompanying Prince Cảnh. He organized the defense of Diên Khánh when it was besieged by a numerically vastly superior Tây Sơn army in 1794.[50]



Death




Tomb of Pigneau de Behaine.


Heavy fighting raged in Qui Nhơn for control of the fortress until it was captured in 1799. Pigneau died there of dysentery on 9 October in the same year, after serving his final years as an advisor and de facto foreign minister to Nguyễn Ánh. He was buried at Saigon with full military honours. Nguyễn Ánh's funeral oration described him as "the most illustrious foreigner ever to appear at the court of Cochinchina." He was buried on 16 December 1799 in the presence of the crown prince, all mandarins of the court, the royal bodyguard of 12,000 men and 40,000 mourners.


Pigneau de Behaine was the object of several funeral orations on behalf of emperor Gia Long and his son Prince Cảnh.[51] In a funeral oration dated 8 December 1799, Gia Long praised Pigneau de Behaine's involvement in the defense of the country, as well as their personal friendship:


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Funeral oration of emperor Gia Long to Pigneau de Behaine (excerpt):




Funeral oration of emperor Gia Long to Pigneau de Behaine, 8 December 1799.


"(...) Pondering without end the memory of his virtues, I wish to honour him again with my kindness, his Highness Bishop Pierre, former special envoy of the kingdom of France mandated to obtain a sea-based and land-based military assistance sent by decree by warships, him, this eminent personality of the Occident received as a guest of honour at the court of Nam-Viet (...) Although he went to his own country to address a plea for help and rally the opinion in order to obtain military assistance, he was met with adverse conditions midway through his endeavour. At that time, sharing my resentment, he decided to act like the men of old: we rather rallied together and outshone each other in the accomplishment of duty, looking for ways to take advantage of opportunities to launch operations (...) Everyday intervening constantly, many times he marvelously saved the situation with extraordinary plans. Although he was preoccupied with virtue, he did not lack humour. Our agreement was such that we always desired to be together (...) From the beginning to the end, we were but one heart (...)"


— Funeral oration of emperor Gia Long to Pigneau de Behaine, 8 December 1799.[52]


Pigneau de Behaine was granted the position Thái tử Thái phó (太子太傅, "Crown Prince's Tutor") and the noble title Bi Nhu Quận công (悲柔郡公, lit. "provincial duke Bi Nhu") posthumously. He also received the posthumous name Trung Ý (忠懿 lit. "loyalty and kindness") from Gia Long.[1]




Statue of Pigneau de Behaine, with Prince Cảnh and holding the Treaty of Versailles, in Saigon.


Only a few of Pigneau's men stayed for more than two or three year, disappointed in the lack of a quick fortune. Pigneau himself had wanted a Catholic as ruler of Vietnam. His ambition never materialised with the failure to convert Canh, who predeceased his father Nguyễn Ánh by twenty years in any case.


Pigneau often compromised his religious principles when they came into conflict with political and diplomatic imperatives. He had initially taught Canh to refuse to engage in ancestor worship, something that greatly shocked and angered Nguyễn Ánh. He later changed his mind on the papal ban and proposed to consider ancestor worship as a civil ceremony, a simple manifestation of respect for the dead. He cited the apostles as being tolerant of local customs as his justification.




Ashes of Pigneau de Behaine, at the Paris Foreign Missions Society.




Pigneau's 1772 Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum, at the Paris Foreign Missions Society.


In 1983, the tomb of Pigneau de Behaine was dismantled by the Vietnamese government, and the area was replaced by a park. His remains were cremated and sent to France where they are now housed in the Paris Foreign Missions Society.[53]



Works



  • Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum, 1772.


See also


  • France–Vietnam relations


Notes





  1. ^ ab Đại Nam chính biên liệt truyện, (Sơ tập, Quyển 28)


  2. ^ Baptismal certificate[permanent dead link]


  3. ^ Charles Le Gobien and Jean-Baptiste Du Halde. Lettre edifiantes et curieus écrites Des Missions étrangères: Mémoires de la Chine. Lyon: J Venarel, 1819. p. 451


  4. ^ "Một bộ Từ điển Việt-La tinh viết tay vào cuối thế kỷ XVIII vừa sưu tầm được" trong Tạp chí Hán Nôm


  5. ^ Mantienne, p.204


  6. ^ Mantienne, p.37


  7. ^ Mantienne, p.40–48


  8. ^ Mantienne, pp.40–41


  9. ^ ab Mantienne, p.53


  10. ^ abc Manteigne, p.67


  11. ^ ab Mantiennne, p.67


  12. ^ "Titular Episcopal See of Adraa, Syria". GCatholic.org..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  13. ^ "Bishop Pierre-Joseph-Georges Pigneau de Béhaine". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.


  14. ^ Mantienne, p.57


  15. ^ Les Missions Etrangeres, p.104


  16. ^ Mantienne, p.73


  17. ^ Mantienne, pp.74–75


  18. ^ ab Mantienne, p.78


  19. ^ abc Mantienne, p.81


  20. ^ Mantienne, p.82


  21. ^ Mantienne, p.83


  22. ^ ab Mantienne, p.84


  23. ^ Mantienne, pp.84–85


  24. ^ ab Mantienne, p.85


  25. ^ Mantienne, p.87


  26. ^ Mantienne, p.84, p.200


  27. ^ Mantienne, p.92


  28. ^ Mantienne, p.93


  29. ^ Dragon Ascending by Henry Kamm p.86-87


  30. ^ Mantienne, p.96


  31. ^ Viet Nam by Nhung Tuyet Tran, Anthony Reid, p.293


  32. ^ "He dazzled the Louis XVI court at Versailles with Nguyen Canh, ... dressed in red and gold brocade, to play with the Dauphin, the heir apparent." in The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and Our Fantasies by Sheridan Prasso, p.40


  33. ^ "The Dauphin, about his age, played with him." French Policy and Developments in Indochina – Page 27 by Thomas Edson Ennis


  34. ^ Mantienne, p.97/204


  35. ^ Mantienne, p.97


  36. ^ Mantienne, p.106


  37. ^ Mantienne, p.104


  38. ^ Mantienne, p.103-108


  39. ^ Mantienne, p.98. Original French: "il était "maître de ne point entreprendre l'opération ou de la retarder, d'après son opinion personnele""


  40. ^ Mantienne, p.109-110


  41. ^ Mantienne, p.110


  42. ^ abcd A History of Vietnam by Oscar Chapuis p.178


  43. ^ "Conway finally provided the frigate Meduse and another vessel to repatriate the mission" in The Roots of French Imperialism in Eastern Asia – Page 14 by John Frank Cady 1967 [1]


  44. ^ The Vietnamese Response to French Intervention, 1862–1874 by Mark W. McLeod, p.11 [2]


  45. ^ Mantienne, p.153


  46. ^ Colonialism by Melvin Eugene Page, Penny M. Sonnenburg, p.723


  47. ^ Mantienne, p.132


  48. ^ Mantienne, p.129


  49. ^ ab Mantienne, p.130


  50. ^ Mantienne, p.135


  51. ^ Mantienne, p.219-228


  52. ^ In Mantienne, p.220. Original French (translated by M.Verdeille from the Vietnamese): "Méditant sans cesse le souvenir de ses vertus, je tiens à honorer à nouveau de mes bontés, sa grandeur l'évèque Pierre, ancien envoyé spécial du royaume de France mandaté pour disposer d'une assistance militaire de terre et de mer dépèchée par décret par navires de guerre, [lui] éminente personnalité d'Occident reçue en hôte d'honneur à la cour du Nam-Viet (...) Bien qu'il fut allé dans son propre pays élever une plainte et rallier l'opinion en vue spécialement de ramener des secours militaires, à mi-chemin de ses démarches survinrent des événements adverses à ses intentions. Alors, partageant mes ressentiments, il prit le parti de faire comme les anciens: plutôt nous retrouver et rivaliser dans l'accomplissement du devoir, en cherchant le moyen de profiter des occasions pour lancer des opérations (...) Intervenant constamment chaque jour, maintes fois il a merveilleusement sauvé la situation par des plans extraordinaires. Tout en étant préoccupe de vertu, il ne manquait pas de mots d'humour. Notre accord était tel que nous avions toujours hâte d'être ensemble (...) Du début a la fin, nous n'avons jamais fait qu'un seul coeur."


  53. ^ Mantienne, p.229




References




  • Cady, John F. (1964). South East Asia: Its historical development. McGraw Hill.


  • Buttinger, Joseph (1958). The smaller dragon : a political history of Vietnam. Praeger.

  • Daughton, James P. 2006). Recasting Pigneau de Behaine: Missionaries and the Politics of French Colonial History, 1894–1914, pp. 290–322 in Nhung Tuyet Tran and Reid, Anthony J.S. Viêt Nam Borderless Histories, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006, ix + 386 pp.


  • Hall, D. G. E. (1981). A history of South-east Asia. Macmillan.


  • Mantienne, Frédéric (1999). Monseigneur Pigneau de Béhaine. 128 Rue du Bac, Paris: Editions Eglises d'Asie. ISBN 2-914402-20-1. ISSN 1275-6865.


  • Les Missions Etrangères. Trois siecles et demi d'histoire et d'aventure en Asie Editions Perrin, 2008,
    ISBN 978-2-262-02571-7












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