Félix Éboué
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Adolphe Sylvestre Félix Éboué was a French colonial administrator. He was the first black French man appointed to a high post in the French colonies, when appointed acting governor of Guadeloupe in 1936.
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Adolphe Sylvestre Félix Éboué was a French colonial administrator. He was the first black French man appointed to a high post in the French colonies, when appointed acting governor of Guadeloupe in 1936. As governor of Chad in 1940, he was early and exceptional in supporting Charles de Gaulle's Free French movement, and was influential in the calling and the conduct of the 1944 Brazzaville Conference on colonial reform. He supported educated Africans and placed more in the colonial administration, as well as supporting preservation of African culture. He was the first black person to be buried in the Panthéon in Paris.
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