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Arthur Verdier

1835–1898 · 19th century

Arthur Verdier was a French merchant and shipowner from La Rochelle whose trading house worked on the Ivory Coast from the 1860s. When France withdrew its garrisons from the coast after the Franco-Prussian War, his company kept up the French presence, and he was named French resident in 1878. His firm opened the first coffee plantation in the colony, at Elima.

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French Ivory Coast

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Arthur Verdier. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/arthur-verdier
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