Until the independence period, Brazza remained a major figure in French history. In 1939 Léon Poirier shot a movie entitled : Brazza ou l’épopée du Congo. The Vichy Nazi-kind government presented Brazza as a heroïc model, de Gaulle built for him a monument in 1944 in Brazzaville and turned up arm in arm with Marthe de Brazza.
In the fifties, Brazza’s story was told to school children in movies shot by Maria de Crisenoy. Postal stamps, tobacco, cigarettes, soap, biscuits were named after Brazza.“It is because Brazza created the French equatorial Africa, it is because Cameroon was located north, that French sovereignty could be upheld throughout this war and today, the whole Empire stand by the Cross of Lorraine as exemplified by Brazzaville… Savorgnan de Brazza’s recollection will remain as a sunray during its days and as a lighthouse during its nights”.(de Gaulle in Brazzaville)
A museum was opened in Algiers, in the Brazzas’ former house in 1952. But if anything, his ties with the capital he created still remains unimpaired. Brazzaville has kept the name of its founder.
