 Atangana travelled frequently in the French colonial period . He made a point of attending his subjects ' weddings and funerals , for example . He had more opportunities to visit Europe , including the Paris Colonial Exposition in 1931 and the French Colonial Conference in 1935 . In 1938 , his wife died . Atangana was a handsome man by Ewondo standards : strong , well groomed , with a reputation as a good fighter , dancer , and husband . He remarried on 6 January 1940 to Julienne or Yuliana Ngonoa , a young Beti woman of the Mvog Manga sublineage from the village Nkolafamba . She bore him two children : Marie @-@ Thérèse and René Grégoire . Atangana seems to have adhered to Catholic strictures against polygamy , despite the fact that other Beti chiefs at the time had several hundred wives . 
