Death and Memorials
The last tour of the Congo took a hard physical toll of Brazza, and on his return journey to Dakar he died of dysentery and fever. (There were rumours that he had been poisoned.) His body was repatriated to France and he was given a state funeral at Sainte-Clothilde Church in Paris prior to interment at the cemetery of Père Lachaise. His widow, Thérèse, dissatisfied with the politicians' subsequent behaviour, had his body exhumed and reinterred in the African continent at Algiers. The epitaph for his burial site in Algiers reads: "une mémoire pure de sang humain" ("a memory untainted by human blood").
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