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Éboué, Félix

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Éboué, Félix (b. 28 Dec. 1884, d. 17 May 1944). French colonial administrator Of West Indian origin, he was educated in Paris and in 1908 was sent to Ubangi Shari (now the Central African Republic), where he served in the French colonial service. He was appointed acting Governor of Martinique in 1932, Governor of Guadaloupe in 1936, and Governor of Chad in 1938. In World War II he supported the Free French and was appointed by de Gaulle Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa. He became the first coloured person to be interred in the Panthéon in Paris.

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