Days of DeGaulle

Tile monuments commemorating DeGaulle's participation in the Brazzaville Conference...

DeGaulle depicted with Gov. Felix Eboue'..

Memorial to Gen. Charles DeGaulle located just beside the River Congo and the residence of the French Ambassador, now appears to be a popular place to hang out.

Gen. DeGaulle is honored here in many memorials because of his history here in Brazzaville. In 1908, France organized French Equatorial Africa (AEF), comprising its colonies of Middle Congo (modern Congo), Gabon, Chad, and Oubangui-Chari (modern Central African Republic). Brazzaville was selected as the federal capital.

During World War II, the AEF administration sided with Charles DeGaulle, and Brazzaville became the symbolic capital of Free France during 1940-43. 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 colonial subjects, decentralization of certain powers, and election of local advisory assemblies. Congo benefited from the postwar expansion of colonial administrative and infrastructure spending as a result of its central geographic location within AEF and the federal capital at Brazzaville.
Source: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2825.htm

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