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Brazzaville Market in 1905 Brazzaville railway station in 1941. Brazzaville was founded by the French colonial empire upon an existing indigenous Bateke settlement called Ncuna, during the Scramble for Africa when European nations established spheres of influence on the continent. [12]
Brazzaville becomes capital of government-in-exile of France (Free France) during World War II. [7] October: De Gaulle visits city. [5] 1943 Bacongo arrondissement created. [4] Basilique Sainte-Anne-du-Congo de Brazzaville (church) construction begins. [6] 1944 Brazzaville Zoo opens. January: Meeting of government-in-exile of France held in ...
It was also in Brazzaville that De Gaulle instituted the Order of Liberation on 16 November 1940, and gave secret instructions to the colonel Leclerc of the 2nd Armed division. Radio-Brazzaville became the official radio of Free France. The new governor general of Brazzaville was Félix Éboué, the first to join Free France.
The French Congo began at Brazzaville on 10 September 1880 as a protectorate over the Bateke people along the north bank of the Congo River. [1] The treaty was signed between King Iloo I and Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza ; Iloo I died the same year it was signed, but the terms of the treaty were upheld by his queen Ngalifourou . [ 2 ]
The Brazzaville Conference (French: Conférence de Brazzaville) was a meeting of prominent Free French leaders held in January 1944 in Brazzaville, the capital of French Equatorial Africa, during World War II. After the Fall of France to Nazi Germany, the collaborationist Vichy France regime controlled the colonies.
Avenue de France, in Poto-Poto ... (1995) Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville. New York: Cambridge University Press. ... Wikipedia® is a registered trademark ...
During World War II, the AEF administration sided with Free French President Charles de Gaulle, and Brazzaville became the symbolic capital of Free France from 1940 to 1943. The Brazzaville Conference of 1944 heralded a period of major reform in French colonial policy, including the abolition of forced labor, granting of French citizenship to ...
Brazzaville (1940–1943), with metropolitan France under Axis powers rule, Brazzaville was announced as the seat of the Free France government. Algiers (1943–1944), the city was made the seat of Free France, to be closer to the war in Europe. Paris (1945-present day).