OpenLLM-France/wikimedia huggingface dataset:
# Polynoncus

Polynoncus is a genus of beetles of the Family Trogidae. It contains the following species:
* Polynoncus aeger (Guerin-Meneville, 1844) (South America)
* Polynoncus aricensis (Gutierrez, 1950) (South America)
* Polynoncus bifurcatus (Vaurie, 1962) (South America)
* Polynoncus brasiliensis (Vaurie, 1962) (South America)
* Polynoncus brevicollis (Eschscholtz, 1822) (South America)
* Polynoncus bullatus (Curtis, 1845) (Chile, Argentina)
* Polynoncus burmeisteri (Pittino, 1987) (Argentina)
* Polynoncus chilensis (Harold, 1872) (Chile, Argentina)
* Polynoncus crypticus (Diéguez, 2019) (Chile)
* Polynoncus diffluens (Vaurie, 1962) (Chile)
* Polynoncus ecuadorensis Vaurie, 1962 (Ecuador)
* Polynoncus erugatus Scholtz, 1990 (Argentina)
* Polynoncus galapagoensis (Van Dyke, 1953) (Galapagos Islands)
* Polynoncus gemmifer (Blanchard, 1846) (South America)
* Polynoncus gemmingeri (Harold, 1872) (Panama to Argentina)
* Polynoncus gibberosus Scholtz, 1990 (Chile)
* Polynoncus gordoni (Steiner, 1981) (Peru)
* Polynoncus guttifer (Harold, 1868) (South America)
* Polynoncus haafi Vaurie, 1962 (Argentina)
* Polynoncus hemisphaericus (Burmeister, 1876) (Argentina, Chile)
* Polynoncus juglans (Ratcliffe, 1978) (Brazil, Guyana)
* Polynoncus longitarsis (Harold, 1872) (Argentina, Chile)
* Polynoncus mirabilis Pittino, 1987 (Chile, Argentina)
* Polynoncus neuquen (Vaurie, 1962) (Chile, Argentina)
* Polynoncus parafurcatus (Pittino, 1987) (Argentina, Brazil)
* Polynoncus patagonicus (Blanchard, 1846) (Argentina)
* Polynoncus patriciae Pittino, 1987 (Argentina, Uruguay)
* Polynoncus pedestris (Harold, 1872) (Argentina)
* Polynoncus peruanus (Erichson, 1847) (South America)
* Polynoncus pilularius (Germar, 1824) (South America)
* Polynoncus pittinoi (Costa-Silva & Diéguez, 2020) (Argentina)
* Polynoncus sallei (Harold, 1872) (Madagascar, Ecuador, Peru)
* Polynoncus seymourensis (Mutchler, 1925) (Galapagos Islands)
* Polynoncus tenebrosus (Harold, 1872) (Ecuador)
* Polynoncus vazdemelloi (Huchet & Costa-Silva, 2018) (Brazil)
# Myanmar–Turkey relations

Myanmar–Turkey relations are the foreign relations between Myanmar and Turkey. Turkey has an embassy in Naypyidaw and Myanmar's ambassador in Cairo, Egypt is also accredited to Turkey.

## Diplomatic relations

Relations were tense between Myanmar and Turkey because of Turkey's support for the Kuomintang in Taiwan. Burma had hostile relations with Taiwan and intercepted a cargo plane from Taiwan bringing Turkish and American supplies to the Kuomintang. This caused a new diplomatic crisis between Turkey and Burma. Relations improved afterward and were amicable.
Relations became very tense in 1988 after Tatmadaw’s very violent crackdown on peaceful civilian demonstrators. Aung San Suu Kyi gained admiration and sympathy in Turkey during as a result of Tatmadaw’s actions. Turkey subsequently suspended its aid programs except for humanitarian aid. Turkey was very critical of Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest and collaborated with United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who took a personal interest in her wellbeing.

## Economic relations

* Trade volume between the two countries was 38.7 million USD in 2018 (Turkish exports/imports: 30.7/8 million USD).
# Alan Boss

Alan P. Boss (born in Lakewood, Ohio) is a United States theoretical astrophysicist, astronomer, and planetary scientist at the Earth and Planets Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science.

## Life and career

Educated in the Physics Departments at the University of South Florida and the University of California, Santa Barbara, Boss is a prominent scientist in stellar and planetary system formation and the study of extrasolar planets who has made highly cited contributions to the study of gas giant planet and binary star system formation. He has published hundreds of articles in these areas and related fields. He is currently a Staff Member at the Carnegie Institution for Science in the Earth and Planets Laboratory.
Boss was selected to join the NASA Science Working Group for the Kepler Mission and the NASA External Independent Readiness Board for the Exoplanet Exploration Program, both charged with the detection and characterization of nearby habitable Earth-like planets. He currently chairs the Technology Assessment Committee for NASA's Exoplanet Exoploration Program.

## Achievements

Boss received a NASA Group Achievement Award in 2008 for his role in the Astrobiology Roadmap. Boss is a fellow of numerous scientific academies and societies, e.g., the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Astronomical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Geophysical Union. Minor Planet (29137) is named Alanboss (1987).
# Jean Dunn (cyclist)

Jean Dunn (born c. 1934) is a retired British track cyclist. She won bronze medals in the sprint at five consecutive world championships in 1958–1962, behind the Soviet riders Galina Ermolaeva and Valentina Maximova-Pantilova.
# Ghost Forest

Ghost Forest is an art installation by Maya Lin in Madison Square Park in New York City. The piece is composed of 49 dead Atlantic white cedars.

## Overview

The installation ran from May 10, 2021, to November 14, 2021. The trees as installed were approximately 40 feet (12 m) tall and were all scheduled to be cut down as part of a restoration program in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
The trees, after the installation had finished, were saw-milled into planks on November 19, 2021, and donated to Rocking the Boat, an educational non-profit in the Bronx, to be built into boats by students. A trustee for Rocking the Boat experienced the installation and inquired about using the trees after it was over. The Madison Square Park Conservancy and Lin agreed, with Lin saying:
   The Atlantic white cedar trees have great resiliency. They were sourced from a dying forest. They stood in Madison Square Park as symbols and signposts for six months to demonstrate the physical materiality of climate change. And now they are being repurposed with new meaning.
The boats are planned to be finished and launched for the first time in mid-2023.
# Alfred Bigland

Alfred Bigland (1855 - 1936) was an English industrialist and an MP from 1910 to 1922.

## Life

Bigland was born on 15 March 1855, son of Edwin Bigland, of Birkenhead.
He was educated at the Quaker school at Sidcot. As a supporter of the First World War, he resigned his membership of Quakers in 1914.
He married Emily Jane Arkle in 1878; they had a son, Douglas, and two daughters. Mrs Bigland died in 1931.
He was elected to Parliament as a Conservative and Unionist in the December 1910 general election, for the Birkenhead Constituency and in 1918 for the new constituency of East Birkenhead, sitting until defeated in the 1922 general election by a Liberal. His particular political interest was Tariff reform.
During the World War I, he was responsible for acquiring sufficient quantities of glycerine for the manufacture of cordite propellant. He also persuaded the War Office to drop its minimum height for recruits to enable "Bantam battalions" to be formed.
His portrait, painted by his brother, Percy Bigland is in the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead.
# Lisa Zimmermann (skier)

Lisa Zimmermann (born 2 March 1996 in Nuremberg) is a German freestyle skier. She won the gold medal in slopestyle at the 2015 World Championships in Kreischberg.

## World Cup results
### Season titles

* 1 title – (1 slopestyle)
| Season | Discipline |
| 2013–14 | Slopestyle |

### Season standings

| Season | Age | Overall | Slopestyle | Big Air |
| 2012–13 | 16 | 179 | 41 | — |
| 2013–14 | 17 | 8 | 1 | — |
| 2014–15 | 18 | not competed | not competed | not competed |
| 2015–16 | 19 | 55 | 4 | 1 |

### Race Podiums

* 4 wins – (2 SS, 2 BA)
* 7 podiums – (4 SS, 3 BA)
| Season | Date | Location | Discipline | Place |
| 2013–14 | 25 August 2013 | Cardrona, New Zealand | Slopestyle | 3rd |
| 2013–14 | 18 January 2014 | Gstaad, Switzerland | Slopestyle | 1st |
| 2013–14 | 22 March 2014 | Silvaplana, Switzerland | Slopestyle | 1st |
| 2015–16 | 28 August 2015 | Cardrona, New Zealand | Slopestyle | 3rd |
| 2015–16 | 12 February 2016 | Boston, USA | Big Air | 1st |
| 2016–17 | 11 November 2016 | Milan, Italy | Big Air | 1st |
| 2016–17 | 2 December 2016 | Mönchengladbach, Germany | Big Air | 3rd |

## Olympic results

| Year | Age | Slopestyle | Big Air |
| 2014 Sochi | 17 | 14 | — |

## World Championships results

| Year | Age | Slopestyle | Big Air |
| 2013 Voss | 16 | 17 | — |
| 2015 Kreischberg | 18 | 1 | — |
# Louie L. Wainwright

Louie Lee Wainwright (September 11, 1923 – December 23, 2021) was an American corrections administrator who served as Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections from 1962 to 1987. He is known for having been the named respondent in two U.S. Supreme Court cases: Gideon v. Wainwright in which indigents are guaranteed an attorney, and Ford v. Wainwright, in which the Court approved the common law rule prohibiting the execution of the insane. Time Magazine called the Gideon decision one of the ten most important legal events of the 1960s. He also appeared as the respondent in a number of habeas corpus petitions that reached the Supreme Court level during his tenure in office, making "Wainwright" one of the most familiar names to students of habeas corpus law.

## Biography

Born in Lawtey, Florida, Wainwright received a master's degree in criminal justice from Nova Southeastern University, later serving as a temporary faculty member there. He was then acknowledged as dean of American Correctional Administrators. Wainwright was appointed secretary of the Florida Division of Corrections by Cecil Farris Bryant (Florida Governor at that time) in 1962, replacing H. G. Cochran and remained in the position until 1987, when Richard L. Dugger assumed the role.
Wainwright served under six governors: C. Farris Bryant, Haydon Burns, Claude Roy Kirk, Jr., Reubin Askew, Bob Graham, and Wayne Mixson.
He received the American Correctional Association's highest tribute, the E.R. Cass Award, for outstanding service, and his efforts in support of accreditation in Florida and nationwide earned him the 1986 Accreditation Achievement Award from the Commission of Accreditation for Corrections. Wainwright was appointed to the Corrections Foundation Board in 2001 and re-appointed president in 2003 and annually through 2016.
He also served as president of the Florida Peace Officers' Association from 1965 to 1966, where he was still a prominent and respected member. He was once the superintendent of Avon Park Correctional Institution. His post, Secretary of the Florida Division of Corrections, replaced the post of Director of the Division of Corrections.
Wainwright died in Tallahassee, Florida, on December 23, 2021, at the age of 98.
# Polynoncus bifurcatus

Polynoncus bifurcatus is a species of hide beetle in the subfamily Omorginae found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
# Jehiel Brooks

Colonel Jehiel Brooks (April 8, 1797 Albans, Vermont - February 6, 1886) was a soldier, territorial governor, and plantation owner.

## Life

He was First Lieutenant, in the First Regiment of Infantry with the Ohio Militia, in the War of 1812. He came to the District of Columbia to secure political appointment, but with the exception of an appointment in the Red River Indian Agency in Louisiana during the administration of Andrew Jackson (1829–1837), Brooks had little luck. Instead, he assumed the role of the gentleman farmer on a tract of land adjacent to property that later became part of The Catholic University of America (CUA).
One of the largest holders of real estate in the District, Nicholas Louis Queen ran the Queen's Hotel near the Capitol until his death in 1850. The Brooks and Queens families united in 1828, when Jehiel Brooks and Ann Margaret Queen, the daughter of Nicholas Queen, married. They built the Brooks Mansion.
The son, John Henry Brooks later sold his parents' real estate to early twentieth-century developers of the Brookland neighborhood.
# Al Jadidah

Al Jadidah is a village in Makkah Province, in western Saudi Arabia.
# 2023 Florianópolis Challenger – Doubles

Nicolás Barrientos and Alejandro Gómez were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.
Pedro Boscardin Dias and Gustavo Heide won the title after defeating Christian Oliveira and Pedro Sakamoto 6–2, 7–5 in the final.

## Seeds

* Orlando Luz / Marcelo Zormann (first round)
* Arklon Huertas del Pino / Conner Huertas del Pino (quarterfinals)
* Valerio Aboian / Ignacio Carou (first round)
* Daniel Dutra da Silva / Benjamin Hassan (first round)

## Draw
### Key

* Q = Qualifier
* WC = Wild card
* LL = Lucky loser
* Alt = Alternate
* SE = Special exempt
* PR = Protected ranking
* ITF = ITF entry
* JE = Junior exempt
* w/o = Walkover
* r = Retired
* d = Defaulted
* SR = Special ranking
| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 | O Luz M Zormann | 6$^0$ | 7$^7$ | [5] | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Igor Gimenez Fernando Yamacita | 7$^7$ | 6$^4$ | [10] | | I Gimenez F Yamacita | 6$^6$ | 7 | [7] | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | Gustavo Ribeiro de Almeida Pedro Rodrigues | 4 | 3 | | WC | C Oliveira P Sakamoto | 7$^8$ | 5 | [10] | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | Christian Oliveira P Sakamoto | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | WC | C Oliveira P Sakamoto | 6 | 6 | | | | | |
| 3 | V Aboian I Carou | 6 | 3 | [7] | | | | | | | J Panta M Zukas | 4 | 3 | | | | | |
| | J Panta Matías Zukas | 3 | 6 | [10] | | J Panta M Zukas | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Collarini A Giannessi | 6 | 6 | | | A Collarini A Giannessi | 2 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Wilson Leite J Pereira | 4 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | WC | C Oliveira P Sakamoto | 2 | 5 |
| | Gabriel Roveri Sidney G Villanueva | 5 | 7$^7$ | [7] | | | | | | | | | | | | P Boscardin Dias G Heide | 6 | 7 |
| | P Boscardin Dias G Heide | 7 | 6$^5$ | [10] | | P Boscardin Dias G Heide | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Facundo Juárez Juan Bautista Otegui | 1 | 6 | [10] | | F Juárez JB Otegui | 2 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 4 | D Dutra da Silva B Hassan | 6 | 3 | [4] | | | | | | | P Boscardin Dias G Heide | 6 | 1 | [10] | | | | |
| | G Lama T Lipovšek Puches | 2 | 3 | | | | | | | | J Fonseca T Seyboth Wild | 2 | 6 | [7] | | | | |
| | J Fonseca T Seyboth Wild | 6 | 6 | | | J Fonseca T Seyboth Wild | 3 | 6 | [10] | | | | | | | | | |
| Alt | Thiago Cigarrán JC Prado Ángelo | 2 | 4 | | 2 | A Huertas del Pino C Huertas del Pino | 6 | 4 | [7] | | | | | | | | | |
| 2 | A Huertas del Pino C Huertas del Pino | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
# Phyllonorycter pygmaea

Phyllonorycter pygmaea is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from Japan (the islands of Hokkaidō, Kyūshū, Shikoku and Honshū), Korea and the Russian Far East.
The wingspan is 5-5.5 mm.
The larvae feed on Castanea crenata, Quercus acutissima, Quercus crispula, Quercus mongolica and Quercus serrata. They mine the leaves of their host plant.
# Phyllosticta anacardiacearum

Phyllosticta anacardiacearum is a fungal plant pathogen infecting mangoes.
# 2023 HBCU Legacy Bowl

The 2023 HBCU Legacy Bowl was a post-season college football all-star game played on February 25, 2023, at Yulman Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was the second edition of the HBCU Legacy Bowl and was the last of the all-star games that concluded the 2022–23 bowl games.
The bowl's teams are named after Jake Gaither, coach of the Florida A&M Rattlers from 1945 to 1973, and Eddie Robinson, coach of the Grambling State Tigers from 1941 to 1997.
Each team was led by co-head coaches: Chennis Berry of Benedict College and Eric Dooley of Southern University for Team Robinson, and Richard Hayes Jr. of Fayetteville State University and Trei Oliver of North Carolina Central University for Team Gaither.
On October 13, 2022, Mark Evans II, an offensive lineman for the Arkansas–Pine Bluff Golden Lions football team, was announced as the first player selected to the game.

## Box score

| Quarter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| Team Gaither | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Team Robinson | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 10 |
at Yulman Stadium • New Orleans
* Date: Saturday, February 25, 2023
* Game time: 4:00 p.m. EST
* Game attendance: 25,900
* TV: NFL Network
* Box score
| Statistics | Gaither | Robinson |
| First downs | 11 | 10 |
| Plays–yards | 49–196 | 47–190 |
| Rushes–yards | 26–61 | 20–6 |
| Passing yards | 135 | 184 |
| Passing: comp–att–int | 15–23–0 | 20–27–0 |
| Time of possession | 31:15 | 28:45 |
| Team | Category | Player | Statistics |
| Gaither | Passing | Jalen Fowler | 12–13, 111 YDS |
| Gaither | Rushing | Alfonzo Graham | 5 CAR, 21 YDS |
| Gaither | Receiving | Tyler Barnes | 2 REC, 37 YDS |
| Robinson | Passing | Larry Harrington | 9–15, 103 YDS, 1 TD |
| Robinson | Rushing | Que'shaun Byrd | 1 CAR, 4 YDS |
| Robinson | Receiving | Xavier Smith | 6 REC, 85 YDS, 1 TD |
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# 2023 HPP Open

The 2023 HPP Open was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fourth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2023 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Helsinki, Finland between 6 and 12 November 2023.

## Singles main-draw entrants
### Seeds

| Country | Player | Rank$^1$ | Seed |
| CZE | Tomáš Macháč | 64 | 1 |
| FIN | Emil Ruusuvuori | 71 | 2 |
| POR | Nuno Borges | 74 | 3 |
| FRA | Alexandre Müller | 83 | 4 |
| ESP | Jaume Munar | 87 | 5 |
| ITA | Flavio Cobolli | 98 | 6 |
| FRA | Arthur Rinderknech | 99 | 7 |
| GBR | Liam Broady | 100 | 8 |
* $^1$ Rankings are as of 30 October 2023.

### Other entrants

The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
* Patrick Kaukovalta
* Mark Lajal
* Eero Vasa
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as a special exempt:
* Antoine Bellier
The following player received entry into the singles main draw as an alternate:
* Sumit Nagal
The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
* Alibek Kachmazov
* Oleksii Krutykh
* Francesco Maestrelli
* Maximilian Neuchrist
* Dennis Novak
* Denis Yevseyev
The following player received entry as a lucky loser:
* Stefano Travaglia

## Champions
### Singles

* Corentin Moutet def. Sumit Nagal 6–3, 3–6, 6–2.

### Doubles

* Sriram Balaji / Andre Begemann def. Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan / Vijay Sundar Prashanth 6–2, 7–5.
# 2023 Hacı Esmer Avcı Tennis Cup – Doubles

This was the first edition of the tournament.
Oana Gavrilă and Isabelle Haverlag won the title, defeating Ayla Aksu and Harriet Dart in the final, 6–4, 7–6$^{(7–3)}$.

## Seeds

* Amina Anshba / Anastasia Tikhonova (semifinals, withdrew)
* Naiktha Bains / Maia Lumsden (first round)
* Oana Gavrilă / Isabelle Haverlag (champions)
* Ayla Aksu / Harriet Dart (final)

## Draw
### Key

* Q = Qualifier
* WC = Wild card
* LL = Lucky loser
* Alt = Alternate
* SE = Special exempt
* PR = Protected ranking
* ITF = ITF entry
* JE = Junior exempt
* w/o = Walkover
* r = Retired
* d = Defaulted
* SR = Special ranking
| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| | | | | | 1 | A Anshba A Tikhonova | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | |
| | J Riera L Stevens | 6$^1$ | 7 | [10] | | J Riera L Stevens | 2 | 5 | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Mert T Sretenović | 7$^7$ | 5 | [3] | | | | | 1 | A Anshba A Tikhonova | | | | | | | |
| 4 | A Aksu H Dart | 6 | 6 | | | | | | 4 | A Aksu H Dart | w/o | | | | | | |
| | S Atay M Sezer | 1 | 3 | | 4 | A Aksu H Dart | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| WC | E Shalimova İ Yörük | 3 | 3 | | | A Ureke K Zaytseva | 3 | 2 | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Ureke K Zaytseva | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | A Aksu H Dart | 4 | 6$^3$ |
| | D Lodikova F Östlund | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | O Gavrilă I Haverlag | 6 | 7$^7$ |
| | B Spasova M Toma | 1 | 4 | | | D Lodikova F Östlund | 3 | 5 | | | | | | | | | |
| | A Ibragimova A Kovaleva | 2 | 3 | | 3 | O Gavrilă I Haverlag | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | |
| 3 | O Gavrilă I Haverlag | 6 | 6 | | | | | | 3 | O Gavrilă I Haverlag | 2 | 6 | [10] | | | | |
| | L Böhner A Prisăcariu | 7 | 7$^7$ | | | | | | | Y Hatouka J Kolodynska | 6 | 3 | [3] | | | | |
| | E Garkusha MA Uyar | 5 | 6$^5$ | | | L Böhner A Prisăcariu | 3 | 3 | | | | | | | | | |
| | Y Hatouka J Kolodynska | 6 | 6$^6$ | [10] | | Y Hatouka J Kolodynska | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | |
| 2 | N Bains M Lumsden | 1 | 7$^8$ | [6] | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
# Piesocorynus plagifer

Piesocorynus plagifer is a species of fungus weevils in the family Anthribidae. It is found in North America.
# Pierre Goura

Pierre Goura (April 19, 1912 in Youa, French Equatorial Africa - September 24, 1996 in Aubervilliers, France) was a politician from the Republic of the Congo who served in the French Senate representing Congo from 1955-1958, then mayor of Dolisie (1959-1963) as well as Minister of Finance of the Republic of Congo after the independence of the country (1960-1963).

## Early life

Pierre Goura was born in the village of Youa, at the time located in Middle Congo (today in the district of Sibiti). He studied in a Catholic primary school, then became a clerk in the Territory's administrative services.

## Career

In April 1954, he was elected to the Territorial Assembly. A member of the Congolese Progressive Party (PPC), he was elected in 1946 as deputy for Niari in the Territorial Assembly and remained so until 1957. In 1952, he was elected to the Council of the Territory, of which he chaired the permanent committee, before himself becoming President of this Council in 1954.
On June 19, 1955, he was elected to the Council of the Republic (France), becoming a senator representing the 2nd section of Middle Congo. He sat on the Commission for Industrial Production, then for Agriculture. First attached to the group of the Democratic Left and the RGR, he joined the group of Independents from overseas at the end of 1955.
As a senator, he spoke during 1955 on the subject of the military credits of the Ministry of Overseas France, as well as on the municipal reorganization of Overseas France. Then, in 1956, he asked for the second modernization and equipment plan to have more impact in French Equatorial Africa, and also spoke about the draft framework law relating to overseas territories. In July 1957, he declared that he would vote for the ratification of the treaty on the European Common Market, believing that the latter could improve economic and social progress overseas. However, he expressed his concerns, fearing that the indigenous populations were not considered as full partners within the EEC.
In 1957, he became a member of the Democratic Union for the Defense of African Interests. Then, on June 2 and 3, 1958, he voted for the constitutional revision, as well as for full powers.
In 1959, he was elected mayor of the town of Dolisie. Then, following Congo's independence in 1960, he participated in the creation of the first Republic of Congo alongside President Fulbert Youlou, of whom he became Minister of Finance.