Alfred Albert Martineau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlfred Albert Martineau
French politician, historian and colonial administrator
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Place of Birth: Artins, Centre-Val de Loire, France
About Alfred Albert Martineau
- Alfred Albert Martineau (18 December 1859 in Artins – 25 January 1945 in Varennes) was a notable historian and colonial administrator in the French Colonial Empire. 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.
- Upon retirement from colonial service in 1921 he taught colonial history at the Collège de France until 1935.He was a founding member of the Société de l'histoire de l'Inde française, the Societe francaise d'Histoire d'Outre-Mer (1912) and the Académie des sciences coloniales (1922).
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