French Congo - List of Commissioners-General

List of Commissioners-General

The colony was administered under four commissioners-general (commissionaires généraux) prior to its reorganization into Middle Congo.

  • Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (January 1883 – 1897)
  • Louis Albert Grodet (1897–1898)
  • Henri Félix de Lamothe (1898–1901)
  • Emile Gentil (1901–1903)

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