Jean-Marie Bayol
French physician (1849-1905)
Jean-Marie Bayol (24 December 1849 – 3 October 1905) was a French army doctor, colonial administrator and politician.
Early years
Jean-Marie Bayol was born on 24 December 1849 in Eyguières, Bouches du Rhone, France.
He studied medicine in Montpellier, then joined the naval health department in 1869. He was given his doctorate in 1874.
He was assigned to the marine artillery.
Bayol's first assignment was on the Venus, which visited the coast of West Africa between 1875 and 1876.
He undertook some minor explorations of the Como and Romboé tributaries of the Gabon Estuary in 1878 and explored the Crique Obelo to its source.
In 1879 he was made a first-class naval doctor.
In 1880 he was assigned by Senegal Governor Louis Brière de l'Isle to Captain Joseph Gallieni's expedition in the Upper Niger region.
He was give the title of second in command.
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