Career
He taught at the French Viễn Đông Bác Cổ in Hanoi and promoted literacy in Quốc ngữ Latin script through the Đông Dương tạp chí. He was also chairman of the nationalist hội Trí Tri educational movement. He was first Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam, despite not being a Communist Party member.
Most of these villages no longer exist.
Nguyễn-văn-Tố, "Noms de lieu cham-annamites," Bullétins et Travaux, Institut Indochinoise pour l"Étude de l"Homme VI (1943):225-246.