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Joseph Marchand (August 17 1803 – November 30 1835) was a French missionary in Vietnam and a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society.Marchand was born in Passavant in the Doubs department of France. In 1833 he joined the Lê Văn Khôi revolt by Lê Văn Khôi son of the late governor of southern Vietnam Lê Văn Duyệt. Khoi and Marchand vowed to overthrow Emperor Minh Mạng and replace him with My Duong the son of Minh Mạng’s late elder brother Nguyễn Phúc Cảnh who were both Catholics.
