%%With Ha Dong (present-day Tien Phuoc, Quang Nam) as native village, Phan Chu Trinh (Tây Hồ, 1872-1926) - a strong-willed patriotic scholar - graduated as bachelor (1900) and junior doctor (1901). Disgusted with the corrupt mandarinate, he resigned in 1905 and went everywhere in Vietnam to study the current circumstances. After contacts with Phan Bội Châu in Japan, he decided to save the country with non-violence measures (sending a petition to French Governor General in Indochina), made an appeal for renovation and propagation of quốc ngữ (national language) in style of bourgeois democracy. On the occasion of the anti-tax movement (1908), he was exiled to Côn Đảo (Poulo Condore), then put under surveillance in Mỹ Tho (1911). In the same year, authorized to go abroad by the colonial authorities, he came to France to continue his anti-French activities and earned his living by developing photos. In 1922, on Khải Định's arrival at France, Phan Chu Trinh wrote a letter laying bare this king's wrongdoings. He loved and admired Nguyễn ái Quốc very much. He came home in 1925, and died in Saigon (1926). His funeral was a quite great political event throughout the country. His works were Dau Phap Chinh Phu Thu, Tinh Quoc Hon Ca, Tay Ho Thi Tap, Xang Te Thi Tap...