French protectorate/colony north of the Congo River established by Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza's treaties with the Bateke; renamed Middle Congo (Moyen-Congo) in 1903 before being folded into the French Equatorial Africa federation.
Consolidated with Gabon, Ubangi-Shari, and Chad into the federation of French Equatorial Africa in 1910, formally proclaimed 15 January 1910.
Places France's own concessionary-company exploitation of French Congo (alongside Leopold's Congo Free State and Tippu Tip's Arab zone) at the center of its account of the 1870s-1900s Congo basin scramble.
Broad context for the Brazza-era partition that created French Congo.