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Louis Gustave Binger

Louis Gustave Binger (18561936) was a French officer and explorer.

Binger was born at Strasbourg. In 1887 he travelled from Senegal up to the Niger River, arriving at Grand Bassam in 1889. He described this journey in his work Du Niger au golfe de Guinée par le pays de Kong et le Mossi (From the Niger to the Gulf of Guinea though the land of the Kong and the Mossi) (1891).

In 1892 he returned to the Guinea Coast to superintend the forming of the boundaries between the British and French colonies. In 1893 Binger was appointed governor of the Côte d'Ivoire.

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