Tạ VÃÂn Phụng (chữ Hán: è¬ÂæÂÂå¥Â; ? - 1865), also Bảo Phụng, Lê Duy Phụng (é»Âç¶Âå¥Â), and Lê Duy Minh (é»Âç¶ÂæÂÂ) was a Vietnamese noble, a convert to Catholicism and pretender to the Vietnamese throne. He was engaged by the French on the recommendation of the priest Théophile Le Grand de la Liraye (1819âÂÂ1873), but his pretensions to the throne were disliked by Charles Rigault de Genouilly who led the French invasion of Vietnam in 1858.
The Christian-inspired Bắc Bá» rebellion or Tonkin revolt of the pretender Pierre Le Duy Phung against Tá»± ÃÂức broke out in 1861, the Vietnamese court was parleying with admiral Louis Adolphe Bonard in the south. Only after Bonard rejected alliance with the pretender and made a temporary peace with the Nguyen court at Hue, could Nguyen forces head north to protect Hanoi - after which the revolt was put down in 1865.