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of rural teachers in 1928 at age nineteen. Brierre was appointed thereafter, at 21, as secretary of legation in Paris where he took courses in political science. In 1931, he began studying law and completed his courses in 1935. He was head of
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poet, dramatist, journalist, and diplomat. He is recognized "as one of the most brilliant
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