The Italian-born French explorer Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza (1852-1905) is regarded as the founder of French Equatorial Africa. His fame rests on the methods he employed to secure the goodwill of Africans toward France....

Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza Born January 25, 1852, Rome, Italy Died September 14, 1905, Dakar, Senegal By the late 1800s the European powers were scrambling to divide the huge continent of Africa among themselves. The rivalry among explorers and...

1852-1905 Italian-born French explorer who undertook three great journeys of exploration in the Congo beginning in 1875. His explorations of the Ogowé River, from the coast of Gabon to the interior and to the north of the Lower Congo, laid the...

Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazza, best known as Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza (January 26, 1852 - September 14, 1905) was a Franco-Italian explorer, born in Italy and later naturalized French. With the backing of the Société de...

BRAZZA', A LIFE FOR AFRICA By Maria Petringa This is the first English language biography of Pierre Savorgnan de Brazzà, a late 19th century Italian nobleman who admired Africa and fought to protect its native populations from the excesses of European colonialism....

Pierre de Varga, businessman: born Tomessy, Hungary 1920; died Paris 30 June 1995. The name of Pierre de Varga became famous in France after Christmas Eve 1976. But Pierre de Varga was only one of the names by which this man was known....