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Record Nr.

UNINA9910348227703321

Autore

Hoisington William A. <1941->

Titolo

The assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil : a Frenchman between France and North Africa / / William A. Hoisington, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

9781134268412

1134268416

9781134268429

1134268424

9781280176951

1280176954

9780203004968

0203004965

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 p.)

Collana

History and society in the Islamic world

Classificazione

HIS001000HIS026000POL000000

Disciplina

338.0944/092

B

Soggetti

Industrialists - France

Political activists - France

Assassination - Morocco - Casablanca

World War, 1939-1945 - Africa, North

France Colonies Africa

Africa, North History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-176) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Plates; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Taxpayer revolt in France; 2 France's fall and the Vichy change; 3 Defending French Africa; 4 Working for Giraud; 5 To die in Casablanca; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is a political biography of the French industrialist and political activist Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil (1894-1955), president of the Taxpayers' Federation in the 1930s, entrepreneur in wartime France and Africa, organizer of the 'Group of Five' in Algiers which prepared for the Allied landings in North Africa (November 1942), 'inventor' of



General Henri Giraud as a candidate for the leadership of liberated North and West Africa, negotiator of the Murphy-Giraud Agreements and the Anfa Memorandum with President Roosevelt (1942 and 1943), political writer on the postwar future of France in Mo