François Pierre Rodier
Encyclopedia
François Pierre Rodier was born in 1854 in Vieille-Brioude
of Haute Loire département, France
. He was Governor General for various colonies in the Second French Colonial Empire
under Third Republic
.
Vieille-Brioude
Vieille-Brioude is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France.-Geography:The Senouire forms part of the commune's north-eastern border, then flows into the Allier, which flows northward through the commune....
of Haute Loire département, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. He was Governor General for various colonies 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...
under Third Republic
French Third Republic
The French Third Republic was the republican government of France from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed due to the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, to 1940, when France was overrun by Nazi Germany during World War II, resulting in the German and Italian occupations of France...
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