Armand Léon Annet (5 June 1888 – 25 April 1973) was a French colonial governor for various colonies in the

French colonial empire The French colonial empire () comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the "First French Colonial Empire", that exist ...

Biography

Armand Léon Annet was born in Paris on 1888, in Rue de Babylone. Annet was Governor of

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from 1935 to 1937. He was Lieutenant-Governor of

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from 1938 to 1940. In 1940, Annet sided with

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after the

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. As the Vichy Governor-General of

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from 1941 to 1942, Annet was involved in the

Battle of Madagascar The Battle of Madagascar (5 May – 6 November 1942) was a British campaign to capture the Vichy French-controlled island Madagascar during World War II. The seizure of the island by the British was to deny Madagascar's ports to the Imperial ...

.Jennings, Eric T. "Vichy Propaganda, Metropolitan Public Opinion, and the British Attack on Madagascar, 1942." L'Esprit Créateur 47, no. 1 (2007): 44-55. Accessed May 17, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26289303. Starting on 5 May 1942, he defended the island with about 8,000 troops. On 5 November 1942, Annet surrendered his remaining forces near

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, on the south of the island. By continuing to fight for 6 months he had become entitled to a higher pension.

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