Youlou
Americannoun
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She wrote that after Guinea became independent, she used this influence to advise the CAR's new President Barthélemy Boganda, persuading him stand down in a diplomatic row with Congo-Brazzaville's post-independence leader, Fulbert Youlou.
From BBC • Jan. 6, 2025
Once on a state visit to Paris, Abb� Fulbert Youlou, President of the Republic of the Congo, shook hands with Charles de Gaulle and boasted: "Like you, I am irreversible."
From Time Magazine Archive
The tremors became serious last August, when mobs of unemployed overthrew President Fulbert Youlou in the ex-French Congo across the Congo River in Brazzaville.
From Time Magazine Archive
Habitually clad in a cassock often topped by a Homburg, and said to have carried a pistol in his robes, Youlou at 46 was one of the world's most unusual statesmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
This year France cut off its $1,100,000 annual dole, and Youlou raised taxes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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