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| | African nation builds £1.4m marble mausoleum for colonial master | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited |
 | | De Brazza's coffin, draped in the French flag, and those of his wife and four children were laid to rest at the site on the Congo river where he established the colony and served as its governor in the late 19th century. |
 | | De Brazza, born in Italy and named Pietro but naturalised as French, beat Henry Morton Stanley, King Leopold of Belgium's envoy, in the race to capture the mineral-rich lands of what became the French Congo. |
 | | De Brazza left French Congo in 1898 but in 1905, on a final visit shortly before his death, he wrote a report detailing forced labour and brutal punishment of Africans by European companies. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /congo/story/0,,1886784,00.html (562 words) |
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