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Since independence, Gabon has been "one of France's closest allies in Africa". [121] As of 2008, around 10,000 French nationals lived and worked in Gabon, while the 6th Marine Infantry Battalion of the French military is also stationed there. France has an embassy in Libreville and a consulate-general in Port-Gentil. Gabon has an embassy in Paris.
Host city Sending country Mission Year closed Ref. Libreville Argentina Embassy 1993 [43]: 77 Benin Consulate-General [a]: 2020 [44] [45] Chile Embassy 1989 [46] North Korea
France first established relations with Gabon in the early 19th century, signing protection treaties with local chiefs in 1839 and 1841. In 1885, during the scramble for Africa, France claimed Gabon as a territory. French administration formally began in 1903, and Gabon became part of the federation of French Equatorial Africa in 1910. The ...
Périquet; Audoin (1913), Missions d'études au Gabon . Chemin de fer du Nord et mission hydrographique (in French), Publication du Comité de l'Afrique française, Paris; Marc Aicardi de Saint-Paul (1989), "5. Infrastructures : The Transgabon Railway", Gabon: the development of a nation, Routledge, pp. 65–67, ISBN 9780415039062
The ambassador of Canada to France is Stéphane Dion who was appointed on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on May 31, 2022. [1] The Embassy of Canada is located at 130, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France.
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Libreville was the administrative capital of France's Congo-Gabon colony between 1888 and 1904, when the capital moved to Brazzaville. [6] In 1910, Gabon became part of French Equatorial Africa (Afrique équatoriale française, AEF). French companies were allowed to exploit the Middle Congo (modern-day Congo-Brazzaville).
Main building, viewed from the southwest. The Château de Cany is a château located in Cany-Barville, a French municipality in the department of Seine-Maritime.It was built by Pierre Le Marinier towards the end of Louis XIII's reign and served as a family residence.