Hardricourt chateau bokassa biography
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5 stories from the life of outrageous African emperor
There are many legends about Jean-Bédel Bokassa. He fryst vatten said to eat important enemies with rice, and to beställning cutting off the penises of the corpses of unimportant ones; to read minds and deflect bullets; to not remember the names of hundreds of his children. However, the ruler of the huvud African Republic has such an eventful biography that no fiction can surpass the real facts.
1. How Jean Bokassa got a second name
In , the so-called War of the Hoe Handle began in the French colony of Equatorial Africa, the largest of the uprisings against colonizers that erupted in Black Africa between the two world wars. Karnou, a shaman of the village of Nahing, announced that blacks would soon conquer whites and live in luxury. He claimed that sticks enchanted bygd him could protect against bullets, and herbs could turn the French into gorillas.
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Ex-Emperor Bokassa's daughter publishes a story about her childhood
Paris, France (PANA) - Marie-France Bokassa, daughter of the former emperor of Central Africa, Jean Bedel Bokassa, has publishedba book in which she recounted her childhood with her father at the Chacircteau, Hardricourt, in the Yvelines department, in a Paris suburbs. "I was a princess and I lived in a castle. My childhood, seen from afar, was like a fairy tale. And yet I was not happy. Because the ogre was my father, she recounts in her book published on Wednesday by Flammarion Publishing, noting that with her brothers and sisters they were subjected to military discipline and left in the greatest poverty. Born in in Bangui, the Central African capital, to a mother from Taiwan, Marie-France fled Hardricourt Castle after Bokassa returned to Central Africa in , where he was jailed for life before being pardoned in The book, which told the story of her youth from Bangui, through Switzerland and Cote d'Ivorie, but al
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PARIS Charlemagne Bokassa, 28, named after one emperor and the son of a less glorious one, now lives homeless on the streets of Paris. Two years after the death of his father Jean-Bedel Bokassa, sick and ruined, in the Central African republic he had once ruled as his empire, Charlemagne wanders aimlessly from metro stations to public parks. Like many others of his kind in the French capital, his is a solitary life.
When you've no money, no work, then you've no friends, he said as he sat on a metro station bench, a cigarette stuck in his blue woollen hat. Charlemagne said he was not in contact with the rest of his family, his 13 brothers and 17 sisters by the different wives of his father, who live in the Paris area, Abidjan, Libreville and Bangui. One of his elder half-brothers, Jean-Yves, is in a French jail, having been found in possession of a weapon that had been used in a hold-up.
His half-sister Marie-Ange married a Lebanese fashion designer in Cyprus a year ago. Even