Félix Éboué
1884–1944 (age 60)
Biography
Félix Éboué was born in 1884 in French Guiana and broke barriers to become a colonial administrator of vision, earning respect through his governance and becoming the first black French colonial governor whose loyalty was unwavering even as the metropole fell to occupation.
He was one of the earliest to rally the colonies to General de Gaulle's Free France in 1940, and after his death in 1944 the Panthéon remembers him as a statesman whose integrity kept hope alive across the French empire.