Person
Pierre Pigneau de Béhaine
French Catholic priest
Pierre Joseph Georges Pigneau (November 2, 1741 in Origny-en-Thiérache – October 9, 1799, in Qui Nhơn), commonly known as Pigneau de Béhaine, also Pierre Pigneaux and Bá Đa Lộc, is 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.