Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan De Brazza
1852-1905
Italian-born French explorer who undertook three great journeys of exploration in the Congo beginning in 1875. His explorations of the O...
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Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
Born January 25, 1852, Rome, Italy Died September 14, 1905, Dakar, Senegal
By the late 1800s the European powers were scrambling to divide the huge continent of Africa amo...
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The Italian-born French explorer Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza (1852-1905) is regarded as the founder of French Equatorial Africa. His fame rests on the methods he employed t...
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