Note 227 — Chapter XXVIII · THE CONCESSIONS RÉGIME IN FRENCH CONGO
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The French West African Company, Cie française de l’Afrique Occidentale, is the largest French firm of African merchants in West Africa. Founded in 1887 with a capital of 7,000,000 francs; total turn-over in 1899, 22,000,000 francs; factories in Senegal, French and Portuguese Guinea, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Lagos, and Ivory Coast.