• Discovery of Ogooué 1875-1878
• The origins of the French Congo 1879-1882
• Founding of the French Congo 1883-1885
• Colonisation of the Congo 1886-1898
• The 1905 mission
  • A return to day life
  • The Congo situation in 1905
  • The concession holding companies
  • The Gaud-Toqué trial
  • Brazza’s recall home
  • Development of the mission
  • The aftermaths of the mission

Brazza exhausted was resting in Algiers only to find out he has to resume working. Then it was a new life between Italy and Lozere, where Therese's family lives, Paris and Algiers.
In the beginning of the year 1899, he became a father. He was thinking of retiring. Dignified he replied to the personal attacks from minister Lebon in French Politic In Africa.
The latter criticised his administrative inability to supervise and his lack of funding regarding  the mission. During the inauguration of a monument dedicated to Francis Garnier, a reporter from the Temps wrote : « As honorable as glorifying dead people is, treating  the living people right is even better ».The law of august 1st 1902 rewarded Brazza with a national pension of 10 000 francs adjustable up to 6000 francs for Therese in  case of  her husband's death and so forth  for their children. Such honors hadn't been received since Pasteur in 1874. Brazza was then getting old. His friends were dead : Dolisie in 1899, Ballay in 1902. He lost one of his children and took a break from the Freemasonry. Progressively, the atrocities committed in the French Congo started to resurface thanks to The Congo Reform Association with E. Morel and  writers such as Joseph Conrad and Mark Twain.
Brazza learned from the missionaries of the « Saint-Esprit » that the situation in the French Congo was just as bad.
France was discovering the great scandal from Gaud and Toque's case, vigorously denounced by the press.