Maurice Bourgine
Maurice Léon Bourgine (born January 15, 1879 in Saint-Joseph , Réunion , † September 23, 1963 in Pamiers ) was a French colonial administrator. He was governor of Ivory Coast , Niger and Dahomey, and commissioner of French Togoland .
Life
Maurice Bourgine attended the Lycée Leconte-de-l'Isle in Saint-Denis on Réunion. In 1899 he was accepted into the École coloniale in Paris . He was one of Joost van Vollenhoven's classmates . Bourgine then entered the colonial service in French West Africa . From 1903 he worked in Senegal , from 1911 in Guinea and from 1914 in Dahomey. In 1916 he was transferred to Ivory Coast, where he took over the post of governor from 1927 to 1928 from Maurice Lapalud on an interim basis. Bourgine succeeded Théophile Tellier as governor of Niger in 1933 , which he remained until 1934. From 1934 to 1935 he was commissioner at the head of the administration of French Togoland and from 1935 to 1937 he was finally active as governor of Dahomey. Maurice Bourgine married Eliane Octobon in 1936 in the capital of Porto-Novo .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hommes et Destins. Dictionnaire biographique de l'outre-mer. Vol. 8: Governors, Administrateurs, Magistrats . Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, Paris 1975, p. 57.
- ^ Index Bo . Website rulers.org, accessed February 3, 2013.
- ^ Bulletin de la Société préhistorique de France . Vol. 33, No. 5 (1936) ( online version ), p. 289.
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| SURNAME | Bourgine, Maurice |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bourgine, Maurice Léon (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French colonial administrator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Joseph , Reunion |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 23, 1963 |
| Place of death | Pamiers |