Presidential palace
The neoclassical beaux arts Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, was built by the French around 1900 to house the French Governor-General of Indochina. When Ho Chi Minh overthrew the French in 1954 he refused to live in the Palace, preferring, until his death in 1969, to live humbly in a traditional Vietnamese two room stilt house that he built behind the palace by the carp pond
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Presidential palace
The neoclassical beaux arts Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, was built by the French around 1900 to house the French Governor-General of Indochina. When Ho Chi Minh overthrew the French in 1954 he refused to live in the Palace, preferring, until his death in 1969, to live humbly in a traditional Vietnamese two room stilt house that he built behind the palace by the carp pond
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