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What did Jean-Baptiste Marchand propose when he returned to France from Africa in his early career?

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... to lead an expedition from France's settlement of Brazzaville on the Congo River across Africa to the Nile, thereby winning for France control of the upper Nile and eventually linking it with France's outpost on the Red Sea at Djibouti ...

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