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    Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza (born Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà; 26 January 1852 – 14 September 1905) was an Italian-French explorer...
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  • Savorgnan de Brazza or Savorgnan di Brazza may refer to: Jacques Savorgnan de Brazza (1859–1888), also known as Jacques Savorgnan di Brazza and Giacomo...
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    mountaineer and explorer, younger brother of Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza. Giacomo Savorgnan di Brazzà was born in Rome on 14 December 1859, the 12th...
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  • activist and businesswoman Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852–1905), Italian-born, naturalized French explorer. Jacques Savorgnan de Brazza (1859–1888), Italian...
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    Brazzaville (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    spheres of influence on the continent. The Italian-born explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, who was granted French citizenship in 1874, officially founded...
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    married Detalmo Savorgnan di Brazza, brother of explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza. They settled in his family estate at the Castello di Brazzà [nl] in Moruzzo...
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    discredited. On the north bank of the river arrived the French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, born in the Italian city of Rome in 1852. As a French naval officer...
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    Savorgnan de Brazza was one of eight Bougainville-class avisos built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) in the 1930s. Completed in 1933, she was assigned...
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    Railway and the N3 road. It grew from a village named Masuku when Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza chose it to resettle former slaves and renamed it Francheville...
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    Resources eAtlas Maria Petringa's 1997 "Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza: Brief Life of a Lover of Africa" about Brazza's extensive explorations of the Ogoué River...
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  • who contributed funds. The King had initially wanted to recruit Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza as an explorer, but he was hired by the French. Henry Morton Stanley...
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  • Petringa, Maria. Brazza, A Life for Africa. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006. ISBN 978-1-4259-1198-0. Describes Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza's extensive explorations...
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    Scramble for Africa (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    duty, underlying many nations' strategies. In the early 1880s, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza was exploring the region along the Congo River for France, at...
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    side, he was a member of the aristocratic Pineton de Chambrun family. Moreover, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza was one of his paternal uncles. Chambrun's godfather...
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    Wenya term Lu-al-ow-wa...": 114, 135  French colonial governor Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza also explored the Lualaba. Day, Trevor; Garratt, Richard (2006)...
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    Society. From this position he facilitated Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza's explorations, and acquired stations that Brazza subsequently abandoned to the French...
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    experienced men to lead his expeditions. He first tried to persuade Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, but he had already entered French service; his eye now fell on...
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    January 1948, Algiers) who married the explorer of Africa Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza. Pierre de Chambrun (1865–1954) was elected deputy under the Third...
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    lawyer in 1877. In March 1883 he became the private secretary of Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza and accompanied him to Africa. With Malamine Camara he participated...
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    "appearance". The species name commemorates Italian-born French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, later to become governor-general of the French Congo, who collected...
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    the Congo River. 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...
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    and specialization" (see underneath). Anne-Ségolène Abscheidt Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza Henri Bretonnet Jacques-Yves Cousteau François Darlan Félix du...
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    d'Abbadie (1810–1897) (Irish born), explored Ethiopia Heinrich Barth Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Italian born) Johann Ludwig Burckhardt Frederick Russell Burnham...
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  • Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza. They resided on West 23rd Street in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. De Chambrun died in 1891 in New York City. de...
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    supervised the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Lambaréné in 1913. Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Italo-French explorer and later colonial governor of French Equatorial...
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    first president of Comoros. Marien Ngouabi's mausoleum and Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza's mausoleum in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. Mausoleum of Félix...
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    was Félicien Challaye, correspondent for Le Temps, who accompanied Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza in his investigation of the crimes. The hearing opened on August 21...
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    areas of modern Mali and Niger), and also the lands explored by Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza for France in Central Africa (roughly equivalent to modern Gabon...
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    French in 1883 that gave the French land in return for protection. Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza oversaw French interests. A small settlement along the Congo River...
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  • around the plans of Sassou Nguesso to transfer the remains of Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza from his grave in Algiers to a $9 million mausoleum in Brazzaville...
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