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Paul Jean François Cousturier
Paul Jean François Cousturier (14 April 1849 – 27 July 1921) was governor of French Guinea, 2 November 1900 to 28 September 1904. After his retirement, he became a well-known botanist. Early years Paul Cousturier was born on 14 April 1849 in Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Montereau, Seine-et-Marrte. His brother Edmond Cousturier was a painter and art critic, who married the artist Lucie Cousturier on 6 January 1901. Paul Cousturier entered the colonial administration in August 1885. On 16 August 1885 he was appointed Chief of the Administrative Secretariat of the French Establishments in the Gulf of Guinea under Noël Ballay. On 24 October 1887 Cousturier was named ''sous-chef'' of the interior of the colony, where he introduced the colonial administration. He followed Ballay to Rivières du Sud, and with him explored the Conakry region, where the city of Conakry was established in 1889. He assisted Ballay in delimiting the boundary between Rivières du Sud and Sierra Leone. French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Gustave Binger
Louis-Gustave Binger (; 14 October 1856 – 10 November 1936) was a French officer and explorer who claimed the Côte d'Ivoire for France. Binger was born at Strasbourg in the Bas-Rhin . In 1887 he traveled from Senegal up to the Niger River, arriving at Grand Bassam in 1889. During this expedition he discovered that the Mountains of Kong did not exist. He described this journey in his work ''Du Niger au golfe de Guinée par le pays de Kong et le Mossi'' (From the Niger to the Gulf of Guinea though the land of the Kong and the Mossi) (1891). In 1892 he returned to the Guinea Coast to superintend the forming of the boundaries between the British and French colonies. In 1893 Binger was appointed governor of the Côte d'Ivoire, where he remained until 1898. He returned to France that year, to an administrative post in Paris at the French Colonial Ministry. In 1899 the Royal Geographical Society awarded him their Founder's Medal for his exploratory work. Louis Gustave Binger die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
