Editing Andrien Duchamps (section)

==Politcal Career==
In 1955, Duchamps returned to Laeral to reclaim land lost by his family during the 1920s. After doing so, Duchamps got married and lived in Larelsford for 4 years while attending The Laeralsford College of Political Studies. During this time, Duchamps met with fellow Brissican landowners to discuss economic reforms of the Brissac Republic as well as lobbied for political support. In his book, Duchamps remarked on this period by stating "Everything I did was for Brissac, from my lectures to my apartment to the dimly lit coffee houses". In 1960, Duchamps ran for the Brisscan Assembly from the Saint-Paul 8th for the Brissac Union Party. Duchamps handily beat the incumbent John-Pierre Borne with 65% of the vote. Duchamps entered the Assembly as a member of the government of the BUP. In 1962, Brissac joined Laeral in the [[Great War]] although, Duchamps was vocally opposed to the conflict describing it as "a pointless war of empires". In 1965, the Brissac Republic left the Great War after opposition by the BUP as well as Duchamps. In 1966, protests began demanding that non-white citizens be allowed to vote. Duchamps who was the Minister of Defense ordered police to monitor members of the Kolda People's Front including its leader Seynabou Gano. However, after supporters of Gano destroyed a police station in Gunieawaye, Duchamps ordered police to arrest Gano leading to riots in major cities. In response, the military was deployed nationwide, a deployment that would be continuous for the next two decades. In the 1968 Presidential Election, Duchamps ran for President on the ticket of the Brissac Union Party defeating incumbent Frédéric Roussel of the Republic Party.
===Presdential Era===
Upon his election, Duchamps was met with nationwide protests by working-class Arrivée and the mostly middle-class Lehvantians. The protests demanded voting rights be extended to those regardless of class and race. Fearing a potential rebellion Duchamps made political concessions and established two separate voting rolls. Roll A for Arrivée and Roll B for Lehvantians and Koldar. Although registering to vote required passing a French-proficient exam, a language most Koldar used for communication between ethnic groups. In 1972, the Koldar Congress Party achieved 60.5% of Roll B, however, Roll B was only given 25 of the 107 seats in the Assembly. Adama Dembou, a Koldar activist ran against Duchamps in the general election but only received 21.5% of the vote. During the 1970s, Duchamps expanded the Brissican military modernizing it and establishing patrol areas. In 1973, the Koldar War also known as the Great Alaafiya or "Great Struggle" began with the killing of a group of Arrivee aid workers in the Rivières Region. In response, Duchamps began a series of arrests and the movement of suspected revolutionaries into Les Villes Accusé or "accused towns". However, this only grew support for rebel groups such as the Koldan Liberation Front led by Seynabou Gano. Gano was more radical than his predecessors and actively called for the redistribution of land and the removal of Arrivee from Kolda entirely. In 1976, Duchamps won handly again on his hardline stance while the Koldar Congress Party became the largest opposition-winning 79.5% of Roll B. After the election, Gano began to make territorial gains in the Kendougou-Sabourisse Region leading to Duchamps giving his famous "Separate and Equal States" speech. In this speech, Duchamps called on Koldar moderates to push for the formation of two separate states. Saying the infamous line "one white and one black state separate but equal". After the speech, some more hardline members of the BUP called for him to resign over seeming to give up land to the KLF. In 1979, the KLF captured the city of Gunieawaye with the city Arrivee residents fleeing to the Brissac Region. In 1980, Duchamps was challenged by a Republic Party candidate as well as by the Koldar Congress Party. Duchamps managed to win, although in a plurality with 47.5%. In 1982, generals in Moudjerria began a campaign of bombing villages, however, Duchamps denounced this calling the people of Moudjerria, "innocents". At way this point according to his autobiography Duchamps realized Brissac was going to lose the war. In 1983, he began opening negotiations with members of the KCP to discuss a new constitution, which eventually progressed into the Saint-Nazaire Conference. 
===Saint-Nazaire Conference===
The Saint-Nazarine Conference began in September 1983 in the seaside town of Saint-Nazarine. Duchamps invited members of the Kolda Congress Party as well as members of his own party to attend. Controversially, he did not invite Gano or anyone from the KLF to the conference. Duchamp's main goal for the conference was to create a separate state while also protecting settlers, while the KCP aimed for a multi-racial state with equal voting and political rights. The initial point of contention was political representation in a post-war state, the KCP argued for a proportional parliament, while Duchamps argued this would disenfranchise Arrivee who only made 30% of the population as of 1980. During the second week of the conference, an attack by the Arrivee nationalist group Knights of Saint-Denis who attempted to disrupt the conference was thwarted however 3 security officers were killed. Ironically, when the conference resumed the KCP was more willing to accept "a two-nation, one-republic" solution. At the end of the conference, an agreement was reached. A new constitution would be written for the new country of Kolda once Duchamp's term ended in 1984 however, Brissiac would still exist as an independent region in Southern Kolda. An agreement was also reached that the new Koldan state would "respect existing land rights. 
===1984 Election===
In 1984, the KLF reorganized into [[Koldan Liberation Front-Union]] in cooperation with the multi-racial, socialist Union Party. Meanwhile, the Koldan Congress Party nominated Assane Malack who was present at the Saint-Nazaire Conference. Duchamps also campaigned outside of the Brissiac Region, although when visiting Moudjerria his motorcade was attacked by armed gunmen. To this day it's unknown who attempted to assassinate Duchamps, although many blamed Seynabou Gano. In the resulting election, Gano won 35.9% of the vote to Duchamp's 34.5% followed by  Malack at 26.5%. Many within the Brissiac Union Party refused to accept the election results, although a week after the election, Duchamps denounced these claims and stated he would accept "the will of this new, unfamiliar nation".