Marcel Treich-Laplène

Marcel Treich - Laplène (* 1860 in Ussel, Correze, † 1890 ago Grand - Bassam ) was a French explorer and is regarded as the founder of the colony of Côte d'Ivoire.

In 1883, he was as overseer of the plantation in ELIMA of Arthur Verdier from Roche in France, which was at that time the French Resident of the fortresses of Grand- Bassam and Assinie. Then he was given the mission to explore the interior of the future Ivory Coast. He took the first voyages of discovery from the coast to the interior and traded with the traditional chiefs in the basin of Comoé the east of the present-day Ivory Coast contracts for the French out. On the western border of the Gold Coast, he prevented the further advance of the British colonizers and saved the expedition of Louis- Gustave Binger, which he led from Kong to Grand- Bassam. For this reason, he is from the Franco- European perspective as the founder of the Ivory Coast.

The early death of this scholar, he died of exhaustion, it allowed Binger (1856-1936), his successor at the head of the colony Ivory Coast to build Treich - Laplènes on the work and reap some laurels. In memory of the deeds Treich - Laplènes a district of Abidjan, the present town Treichville already in 1886, named after him.

• African explorer
• Colonialist
• Ivorians
• Frenchman
• Born in 1860
• Died in 1890
• Man