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Rainilaiarivony
Rainilaiarivony was prime minister of the Merina kingdom of Madagascar from 1864 to 1895 and its real ruler. He married three successive queens, Rasoherina, Ranavalona II and Ranavalona III, brought the court to Protestant Christianity and modernised the law, schools and army. After the French conquest of 1895 he was exiled to Algiers, where he died.
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