Alfred Albert Martineau (18 December 1859 in
Artins – 25 January 1945 in
Varennes
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) was a notable historian and colonial administrator in the
French Colonial Empire
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.
He wrote extensively on colonial affairs and the history of French colonial expansion, in particular a six-volume ''Histoire des colonies françaises et de l'expansion française dans le monde'' (1930–1934) co-authored with former French Foreign Minister
Gabriel Hanotaux
Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux (19 November 1853 – 11 April 1944) was a French statesman and historian.
Biography
He was born at Beaurevoir in the ''département'' of Aisne. He studied history at the École des C ...
. Upon retirement from colonial service in 1921 he taught colonial history at the
Collège de France
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until 1935.
He was a founding member of the ''Société de l'histoire de l'Inde française'', the (1912) and the ''Académie des sciences coloniales'' (1922).
Martineau, Alfred Albert
Sociétés savantes de France
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See also
*Colonial heads of Djibouti (French Somaliland)
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* Colonial heads of the Comoros
*Colonial heads of Gabon
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References
French colonial governors and administrators
École Nationale des Chartes alumni
1859 births
1945 deaths
People from Loir-et-Cher
Governors of French India
Colonial Governors of French Somaliland
Colonial Governors of French Gabon
People of the French Third Republic
Collège de France faculty
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