"This African question in which I never believed the slightest future ... hangs over me in the most unpleasant way. ... My very square opinion was, and I expressed it very forcefully ... to withdraw from it."

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Congo Free StateFormer countriesInternational Association of the CongoInternational African AssociationHistory of Central Africa
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All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 4. Viceroys without colonial aspirations? Jules Devaux (1828-1886) When the case of colonization in Central Africa was already five years advanced, Jules Devaux even started behaving rebelliously. He wrote Van Loo in February 1883. STENGERS, J. Congo: Myths et réalités, 70, footnote 2.