Jacques Gosselin
Jacques Gosselin (born September 29, 1897 in Criquetot-l'Esneval , Département Seine-Maritime , † May 22, 1953 in Gonneville-la-Mallet , Département Seine-Maritime; full name: Jacques Pierre Gosselin ) was a French colonial administrator. He was the governor of Niger .
Life
Jacques Gosselin did military service from 1916 to 1919 after completing his baccalaureate . He joined the colonial administration in French West Africa in 1920 . In 1922 he married Lucie Holgard. At the end of the 1920s he was deployed in Ouagadougou in the colony of Upper Volta , and in the early 1930s he was district commander of Gouré in the colony of Niger. Gosselin was constantly promoted as a colonial official: in 1922 to administrateur adjoint , in 1931 to administrateur and in 1941 to administrateur en chef . From May to November 1946 he took over the post of governor of the colony of Niger from Jean Toby on an interim basis. His brother-in-law Pierre Cournarie was his superior as governor general of French West Africa at the time.
Honors
- Knight (1926) and officer (1947) of the Legion of Honor
- Croix de guerre with a palm branch and a silver star
- Knight of the Nishan el Iftikhar Order
- Officer of the Order of the Black Star
Individual evidence
- ↑ GOSSELIN Jacques Pierre . Archives nationales website , accessed March 8, 2013.
- ↑ Edmond Séré de Rivières: Histoire du Niger . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1965, p. 267.
- ↑ Claude Fluchard: Le PPN-RDA et la décolonisation du Niger, 1946-1960 . Harmattan, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7384-3100-3 , p. 35.
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| SURNAME | Gosselin, Jacques |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gosselin, Jacques Pierre (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French colonial administrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Criquetot-l'Esneval , Seine-Maritime department |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1953 |
| Place of death | Gonneville-la-Mallet , Seine-Maritime department |