André Clément Henri Adam (30 July 1911, in

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) was a French colonial researcher and professor specialized in the social sciences, letters, Arabic, and North Africa. He wrote extensively on

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, publishing a two volume study of the city's transformation with contact with the west entitled '' Casablanca: essai sur la transformation de la société marocaine au contact de l'Occident'', and a general history of the city up to 1914 entitled '' Histoire de Casablanca: des origines à 1914''.

Education

He studied literature at l’École normale supérieure (1933), earned a diploma from l’École libre des sciences politiques (1935), and earned an Agrégation de Lettres (1936). He also held a certification in Standard Arabic from '' L’Institut des hautes-études marocaines'' (1942), and a in letters and human sciences from

Paris-Sorbonne University Paris-Sorbonne University (also known as Paris IV; french: Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) was a public research university in Paris, France, active from 1971 to 2017. It was the main inheritor of the Faculty of Humanities of the Universit ...

with high honors (1968).

Career

He was appointed to work for the '' Direction générale des affaires indigènes du Maroc'' of the

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(1943-1945) and was made an honorary reserve captain. He served in various civil roles as a professor agrégé in Rabat 1937, Fes 1941, and at '' L’Institut des hautes études marocaines'' in Rabat (1946-1949). He served as the director of '' L’École marocaine d’administration'' 1955–1960, also in Rabat. He taught as a professor of sociology at the Faculty of Letters at

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until 1970. He was named professor emeritus at

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(1980). His publications on Casablanca, '' Casablanca: essai sur la transformation de la société marocaine au contact de l'Occident'' and '' Histoire de Casablanca: des origines à 1914'', are heavily cited by authors writing later about the city, such as

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, and Susan Gilson Miller.

Publications

* ''Casablanca : essai sur la transformation de la société marocaine au contact de l'Occident.'' Paris : C.N.R.S., 1968 * ''Histoire de Casablanca : des origines à 1914.'' Gap : Ophrys, 1968

Awards

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon, ...

* ''

Ordre national du Mérite The Ordre national du Mérite (; en, National Order of Merit) is a French order of merit with membership awarded by the President of the French Republic, founded on 3 December 1963 by President Charles de Gaulle. The reason for the order's esta ...

''' * ''Officier de l’Académie'' 1949 *

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1962

References

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