Mont-Bouët

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Mont-Bouët

Location and name

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== Location and name ==
== Location and name ==


The market lies in the Mont-Bouët district of the 3rd arrondissement of Libreville, one of the oldest quarters of the Gabonese capital. The district is named after commandant [[Édouard Bouët-Willaumez]], a French naval officer who, as governor of [[Senegal]] in the 1840s, ordered the construction of the nearby Fort d'Aumale and founded, in 1849, the village to which he gave the name ''Libreville'' in order to resettle slaves freed from the Brazilian slave ship ''L'Elizia''.Mont-Bouët is also noted locally as the birthplace of [[Léon Mba]], the first President of Gabon.
The market lies in the Mont-Bouët district of the 3rd arrondissement of Libreville, one of the oldest quarters of the Gabonese capital. The district is named after commandant [[Édouard Bouët-Willaumez]], a French naval officer who, as governor of [[Senegal]] in the 1840s, ordered the construction of the nearby Fort d'Aumale and founded, in 1849, the village to which he gave the name ''Libreville'' in order to resettle slaves freed from the Brazilian slave ship ''L'Elizia''. Mont-Bouët is also noted locally as the birthplace of [[Léon Mba]], the first President of Gabon.


According to a 2009 master's thesis in geography on the layout of the market, the site was first brought into service at the beginning of the 1970s on land situated on the periphery of what had been colonial-era ''vieux Libreville'' and which had originally been planned as a cemetery.
According to a 2009 master's thesis in geography on the layout of the market, the site was first brought into service at the beginning of the 1970s on land situated on the periphery of what had been colonial-era ''vieux Libreville'' and which had originally been planned as a cemetery.
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