found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed November 17, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Arboussier, Gabriel d'; politician, anticolonial activist, political activist; born 14 January 1908 in Djenné, Mali; earned the license in law at the University of Paris; graduated from National School of Overseas France in Paris (1941); chief of staff in the office of Secretary-General during the administration of Charles-André Bayardelle in Brazzaville, the Middle Congo (1944); deputy representing French citizens from Gabon and the Middle Congo for the First Constituent Assembly in Paris (1945); allied with the nine African deputies in Socialist Lamine Guèye's Bloc Africain; defeated for the Second Constituent Assembly (1946); was publisher of the monthly newspaper Afrique Équatoriale Française Nouvelle; secretary-general of the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (RDA) (1947); president of the Grand Council of French West Africa (1957-1958); became a citizen of Senegal and political director of the Mouvement Populaire Sénégalais (1958); member of the Federal Assembly of Mali (1959-1960); minister of justice of Senegal (1960-1962); Senegal's ambassador to France and deputy director of UNESCO (1963 and 1964); executive director of the United Nations' Institute for Research and Training (1965-1967); ambassador of Senegal to the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn (1974); died 21 December 1976 in Geneva, Switzerland)