Gabriel Louis Angoulvant
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Gabriel Louis Angoulvant (1872–1932) was a Governor General in the second French colonial empire
French colonial empire
The French colonial empire was the set of territories outside Europe that were under French rule primarily from the 17th century to the late 1960s. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the colonial empire of France was the second-largest in the world behind the British Empire. The French colonial empire...

. He was elected to the French parliament, representing the French territories in India, in 1920, and he contributed to the organization of the Paris Colonial Exposition
Paris Colonial Exposition
The Paris Colonial Exhibition was a six-month colonial exhibition held in Paris, France in 1931 that attempted to display the diverse cultures and immense resources of France's colonial possessions.-History :The exposition opened on 6 May 1931 in the Bois de Vincennes on the eastern outskirts of...

 of 1931. Angoulvant published a number of books regarding the French colonial empire, including "La Pacification de la Côte d'Ivoire" in 1916.

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Marcel Amondji
Marcel Amondji
Marcel Amondji is the pseudonym of an Ivorian writer. After spending his childhood in Bingerville, he travelled to France to pursue higher education. Since 1961, Amondji has lived abroad, writing on politics in Côte d'Ivoire.-Works:...

, "Le rêve du gouverneur Angoulvant", in Félix Houphouët et la Côte d'Ivoire : l'envers d'une légende, Karthala, Paris (1884) Ernest Moutoussamy, Les députés de l'Inde française à l'Assemblée nationale sous la IVe République, L'Harmattan, Paris, Budapest, Turin (2003) Marcel Souzy, Les coloniaux français illustrés, B. Arnaud, editor, Paris (1940).

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