Yves-François-Marie-Aimé Urvoy (1900–1944) was a
French
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army officer and historian whose work has focused on
French colonial holdings in
Africa
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Background
Urvoy was born to a family of lower-middle class French-Algerian settlers on 20 January 1900 in
Orléansville
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Relocating to metropolitan France in 1906, the family settled in
Paimpol
Paimpol (; ) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwest France.
It is a tourist destination, especially during the summer months when people are attracted by its port and beaches.
Geography
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. Urvoy attended the Lyc
ée General David d'Angers, and then
École régionale des beaux-arts d'Angers
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, before undertaking a second art degree at the Central Academy and the St Louis school.
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.
Works
*''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 XX
e siècle et la France'', Presses universitaires de France (1942)
*''Chronique d’Agadès''
References
French male non-fiction writers
1900 births
1944 deaths
20th-century French historians
20th-century French male writers
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