Yves Urvoy
Yves-François-Marie-Aimé Urvoy (20 January 1900 – August 1944) was a French army officer and historian whose work has focused on French colonial holdings in Africa.
Background
[edit]Urvoy was born to a family of lower-middle class French-Algerian settlers on 20 January 1900 in Orléansville, Algeria.[1] Relocating to metropolitan France in 1906, the family settled in Paimpol. Urvoy attended the Lycée General David d'Angers, and then École régionale des beaux-arts d'Angers, before undertaking a second art degree at the Central Academy and the St Louis school.[1] Urvoy trained at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres from 1918 to 1920 but upon completion of his training, decided to instead pursue a career in the military.
After the occupation of France during World War II, Urvoy collaborated with the Vichy regime.[1] He was assassinated by resistance members in 1944.[1]
Works
[edit]- Petit atlas ethno-démographique du Soudan, entre Sénégal et Tchad- Larose (1942)
- Les bassins du Niger : étude de géographie physique et de paléogéographie Larose (1942)
- Histoire des populations du Soudan central colonie du Niger- Larose (1936)
- Renaître Essais avec François Perroux-Éditions de la Renaissance européenne (1943)
- Le Syndicalisme base d'une organisation communautaire économique dans le monde de demain
- La Révolution du XXe siècle et la France, Presses universitaires de France (1942)
- Chronique d’Agadès
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Urvoy, Dominic (1978). "Yves Urvoy (1900-1944)". Revue Française d'Histoire d'Outre-Mer (in French). 65 (238). Revue de l'histoire des colonies françaises: 64–98. doi:10.3406/outre.1978.2079. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
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