Please answer the following question: Facts: - caption: jean column on '' avenue de l'independance '' in the capital ralaimongo on antananarivo 's portrait on the side of a - death date: 1944 - birth date: 1885 - name: jean ralaimongo - image size: 200px - nationality: malagasy - image: jean_ralaimongo . jpg - birth place: madagascar - occupation: teacher , activist , politician Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of jean ralaimongo .
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jean ralaimongo -lrb- 1885 -- 1944 -rrb- was a teacher who came to prominence after campaigning to get the french government to give citizenship to the people of madagascar .ralaimongo wanted madagascar to become a french departement and therefore part of france .he came to prominence after 3,000 demonstrated following speeches in a cinema in 1929 .