Lệ Xuân's education at the Lycée Albert Sarraut, a prestigious French school in Hanoi, was entirely in French, and she remembered as a schoolgirl learning about French history but nothing about Vietnamese history, and of singing songs about the forests and mountains of France, observing later the purpose of her education was to eradicate any sense of a Vietnamese identity, and to make her into a proper young Frenchwoman. Mandarin Trần Văn Thông, The grandfather of Xuân
Chương dismissed as a "little runt" controlled by his wife, while Madame Chương, described as "beautiful and very intriguing.the one who directs her husband," was known for "her dogged ambition as for her coucheries utilitaires-sleeping around with people of influence from any and all nationalities." The Trầns were under observation by the French police who doubted their loyalty to France, with M. Her mother, Thân Thị Nam Trân, was a granddaughter of Emperor Đồng Khánh and a cousin of Emperor Bảo Đại. Her father also served as the first foreign secretary for Indochina under Japanese occupation. Her paternal grandfather was close to the French colonial administration, while her father, Trần Văn Chương, studied law in France and practiced in Bac Lieu in the Mekong Delta before marrying into the ruling imperial dynasty. Trần Lệ Xuân, whose given name means "Spring's Beauty," was born into a wealthy aristocratic family in Hanoi, French Indochina, then part of the French colonial empire.
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