Louis Thibon or Louis Charles Thibon or Charles, Louis Thibon was born on 16 April 1866 in Vienne,
Isère
Isère ( , ; frp, Isera; oc, Isèra, ) is a landlocked department in the southeastern French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Named after the river Isère, it had a population of 1,271,166 in 2019.Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône.
He was ''licencié en droit'' ( licenciate in law).
When he was ''chef de cabinet'' of Jean Antoine Blanc, prefect of Landes he married his daughter Marie Andrée Blanc on 4 October 1893 in Mont-de-Marsan (Landes).
Career
* ''Chef de cabinet'' of the prefect of Hautes-Alpes in Gap City (20 December 1889)
* ''Chef de cabinet'' of the prefect of
Landes
''Landes'', or ''Lanas'' in Gascon, means moorland or heath.
''Landes'' and ''Lanas'' come from the Latin ''plānus'' meaning “‘flat, even, level, plain’”. They are therefore cognate with the English plain (and plane), the Spanish word '' ...
in Mont-de-Marsan City (1 January 1893)
* Secretary General (') of
Landes
''Landes'', or ''Lanas'' in Gascon, means moorland or heath.
''Landes'' and ''Lanas'' come from the Latin ''plānus'' meaning “‘flat, even, level, plain’”. They are therefore cognate with the English plain (and plane), the Spanish word '' ...
in Mont-de-Marsan City (16 August 1993)
* Sub-prefect of Saint-Sever — the was suppressed in 1926 — (
Landes
''Landes'', or ''Lanas'' in Gascon, means moorland or heath.
''Landes'' and ''Lanas'' come from the Latin ''plānus'' meaning “‘flat, even, level, plain’”. They are therefore cognate with the English plain (and plane), the Spanish word '' ...
) in
Saint-Sever
Saint-Sever (, Gascon ''Sent Sever'' ) is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
History and geography
Saint-Sever stands on an eminence. It is south of Mont-de-Marsan, on the left bank of the ...
Ardennes
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) in Vouziers City (21 October 1898)
* Sub-prefect of Montélimar — the was suppressed in 1926 — ( Drôme) in Montélimar City (24 September 1900)
* Sub-prefect of Sedan (
Ardennes
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) in Sedan City (2 April 1904)
* Prefect of Ariège in Foix City (10 June 1909)
* Prefect of
Ardèche
Ardèche (; oc, Ardecha; frp, Ardecha) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. It is named after the river Ardèche and had a population of 328,278 as of 2019.Privas
Privas (; oc, Privàs , also ) is a city located in France, in the department of Ardèche.
With its 8,465 inhabitants (2019), it is the least populated prefecture (capital of a department).
It was the location of the 1629 Siege of Priva ...
City (19 October 1909)
* Prefect of Corsica in
Ajaccio
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City (2 March 1912)
* Prefect of Finistère in Brest City (31 December 1913)
* Prefect of
Gard
Gard () is a department in Southern France, located in the region of Occitanie. It had a population of 748,437 as of 2019;Nîmes
Nîmes ( , ; oc, Nimes ; Latin: ''Nemausus'') is the prefecture of the Gard department in the Occitanie region of Southern France. Located between the Mediterranean Sea and Cévennes, the commune of Nîmes has an estimated population of 148,5 ...
City (8 May 1917)
* Prefect of Marne in Châlons-sur-Marne City now Châlons-en-Champagne City (20 February 1919)
* Prefect (''interim'') of Bouches-du-Rhône in Marseille City (5 August 1919)
* Prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône in Marseille City (15 January 1920)
* ''En disponibilité'' (prefect paid for doing nothing) (30 January 1925)
* Pensioner, ''préfet honoraire'' (28 January 1926)
Prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône
On the occasion of the Colonial Exposition in Marseille in 1922 Thibon became ''commandeur'' of the Légion d’honneur.
The first Armenian refugees in Marseille received some help. For instance, the prefect’s wife Marie-Andrée Thibon ''née'' Blanc created an association for the refugees coming from Smyrna (at the time of the Great Fire of Smyrna) and originating from French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon.
But 10,885 Armenian refugees reached in Marseille from August to December 1923 (4,700 during October 1923 only).
Also in 1923, Thibon lamented about
Armenian refugees
Armenian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent
** Armenian Diaspora, Armenian communities across the ...
in Marseille, the “continual arrival of these orientals”.
Honours and awards
''Chevalier'' (Knight) (30 January 1913), ''officier'' (Officer) (21 April 1919), ''commandeur'' (Commander) (12 August 1923) page 519 ''in'' "Thibon (Louis, Charles)" (1866-1940), pages 519-520 ''in'' René Bargeton, préfet honoraire, ''Dictionnaire biographique des préfets (septembre 1870-mai 1982)'', Paris, Archives nationales, 555 pages, 26 cm , . of
Légion d’honneur
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 B ...
.
Sources, Notes, References
* "Thibon (Louis, Charles)" (1866-1940), pages 519-520 ''in'' , préfet honoraire, ''Dictionnaire biographique des préfets (septembre 1870-mai 1982)'', Paris, Archives nationales, 555 pages, 26 cm, .
* "Thibon (''Louis'', Charles)" (1866-1940), page 489 ''in'' Archives nationales (France) (répertoire nominatif par Christiane Lamoussière, revu et complété par Patrick Laharie ; répertoire territorial et introduction par Patrick Laharie), ''Le Personnel de l’administration préfectorale, 1881-1926'', Paris : Centre historique des Archives nationales, 2001, 774 pages, 27 cm, .
* Mary Dewhurst Lewis, "The Strangeness of Foreigners: Policing Migration and Nation in Interwar Marseille", ''
French Politics, Culture & Society
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'', Volume 20, Number 3, Fall 2002, pages 65-96, (http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/fpcs/2002/00000020/00000003/art00005) ; read http://scholar.harvard.edu/mlewis/files/strangeness_foreigners.pdf page 74
* Mary Dewhurst Lewis, ''The boundaries of the republic: migrant rights and the limits of universalism in France, 1918-1940'', Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2007, XV pages and 361 pages, 24 cm, , , SUDOC : http://www.sudoc.fr/120527537, ''passim''
** ''Translation into French'' : Mary D. Lewis, ''Les frontières de la République : immigration et limites de l’universalisme en France, 1918-1940'', translated from French by Françoise Jaouën, Marseille, Agone, printed in 2010, 425 pages and XX pages, 21 cm, .
* http://www.culture.gouv.fr/LH/LH271/PG/FRDAFAN83_OL2646038V001.htm : Archives of Legion d’honneur