| LC control no. | n 79077278 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PQ3989.2.L65 |
| Personal name heading | Lopes, Henri, 1937-2023 |
| Variant(s) | Lopes, Henri, 1937- |
| Other standard no. | http://dbpedia.org/resource/Henri_Lopes Q324321 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q324321 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/39056 0000000081022754 http://isni.org/0000000081022754 22941786 http://viaf.org/viaf/22941786 026994046 http://www.idref.fr/026994046 cb119133191 http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119133191 http://datos.bne.es/resource/XX1575273 11900254X http://d-nb.info/gnd/11900254X |
| Associated country | Congo (Brazzaville) France |
| Birth date | 1937-09-12 |
| Death date | 2023-11-02 |
| Place of birth | Kinshasa (Congo) Leopoldville (Congo) |
| Place of death | Suresnes (France) |
| Affiliation | Unesco Congo (Brazzaville). Ambassade (France) |
| Profession or occupation | Congo (Brazzaville). Prime Minister (1973-1975 : Lopes) Congo (Brazzaville)--Officials and employees Public officers Prime ministers Diplomats Ambassadors Authors Poets Novelists |
| Found in | Author's Tribaliques, 1971. Le méridional, 2015: title page (Henri Lopes) page 4 of cover (Congolese novelist; author of Tribaliques) Bibliothèque nationale de France WWW auth. file, May 12, 2015 (hdg.: Lopes, Henri, 1937- ; b.: 1937, Léopoldville (Congo belge) ; nat.: Congo (Brazzaville) ; Poet and novelist; Prime Minister of the People's Republic of the Congo (1973-1975); Assistant General Director of UNESCO, in charge of culture and communication) Wikipedia, August 1, 2016 (Henri Lopès (born 12 September 1937) is a Congolese writer, diplomat, and political figure. He was Prime Minister of Congo-Brazzaville from 1973 to 1975, and since 1998 he has been the Congo-Brazzaville's Ambassador to France; born across the Congo River in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa), the capital of the Belgian Congo; history professor at the Ecole normale supérieure d'Afrique Centrale in Brazzaville from 1965 to 1966, then Director-General of Education from 1966 to 1968; Minister of National Education from January 1969 until becoming Minister of Foreign Affairs in December 1971. He was included on the five-member Political Bureau of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) in December 1972. Subsequently he was Prime Minister from 1973 to 1975; reappointed to the government as Minister of Finance on 5 April 1977; he served in that position until Justin Lekoundzou was appointed to replace him in December 1980. Subsequently he worked at UNESCO as Assistant Director-General for Culture and Deputy Director-General for Africa from 1981 to 1998; in 26 October 1998, Lopès presented his credentials as Congo-Brazzaville's Ambassador to France; while posted in Paris, he was additionally accredited as Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, and the Vatican City; in addition to his distinguished political and diplomatic career, Lopès has earned distinction as a literary author) The New York Times (online), Henri Lopes, 86, who straddled literature and politics in Africa, dies, December 1, 2023, updated December 3, 2023, viewed February 25, 2024 (died on November 2 in a hospital in Suresnes, a suburb of Paris; he finished his career as the Republic of Congo's ambassador in Paris, retiring in 2015) |
| Associated language | fre |
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