PARIS, Aug 7: Hundreds came to a Paris church on Wednesday to bid farewell to Bao Dai, Vietnam's last emperor, who died last week at the age of 83.Bao dai had lived quietly in France for four decades.He was emperor of France's Protectorate of Annam, now part of Vietnam's narrow central strip of land, from 1925 to 1945. In 1945, with Ho Chi Minh's communist and nationalist Viet Minh guerrillas approaching his imperial seat of power in the city of Hue, Bao Dai was forced to abdicate his throne.Attending the funeral at the St Pierre De Chaillot Church was a representative of President Jacques Chirac and a number of veterans of France's war in Indochina, the French Foreign Ministry said.

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