Jules Brévié
Jules Brévié (born March 12, 1880 in Bagnères-de-Luchon , † July 29, 1964 in the Cantal department ) was a French colonial official and politician .
Jules Brévié began his career as district commander of Bamako in French Sudan . From 1922 to 1929 he was the first governor of the neighboring Niger Colony and then from 1930 to 1936 Governor General of French West Africa . In 1936 he founded the Institut Français d'Afrique Noire in Dakar , of which Théodore Monod was director from 1938 . Brévié was then appointed to French Indochina as governor general . He held this office until 1939. From April 1942 to March 1943, during the Vichy regime , he was Minister for Overseas Territories and Colonies under Prime Minister Pierre Laval .
Jules Brévié became a knight in 1920 and a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1938 . In 1945, however, due to his membership in a government of the Vichy regime, he was deprived of the right to wear state decorations. Brévié was also a member of the Académie des Sciences d'Outre-Mer .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Benoît de L'Estoile, Federico G. Neiburg, Lygia Sigaud (ed.): Empires, Nations, and Natives. Anthropology and State-Making . Duke University Press, Durham 2005, ISBN 0-8223-3628-6 , p. 32.
- ^ André Salifou: Le Niger . L'Harmattan, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-7475-2639-9 , p. 144.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brévié, Jules |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French colonial official and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bagneres-de-Luchon |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1964 |
| Place of death | Cantal department |