Thành Thái
Emperor Thành Thái could not stand his powerlessness and tried to assert himself more. However, the French were not interested in granting the Vietnamese any power and thus looked for a way to get rid of him. Emperor Thành Thái, suspecting that the French wanted to depose him tried to portray himself as a selfish playboy that would do no harm to French colonial ambitions. However, the French saw through his charade and decided to use it against him by spreading false rumours about his behavior with women. Thành Thái then tried to get the French to think he was crazy and thus, again, not a threat to their ambitions. Yet again, the French used this against him and tried to get him removed on the grounds of a lack of mental capacity to rule.