 On 8 January 1926, he was made the emperor after his father's death and took the name "Bảo Đại" ("Protector of Grandeur" or "Keeper of Greatness").He did not yet ascend to the throne and returned to France to continue his studies.On 20 March 1934, age 20, at the imperial city of Huế, Bảo Đại married Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan (died 15 September 1963, Chabrignac, France), a commoner from a wealthy Vietnamese Roman Catholic family.