Yves-François-Marie-Aimé Urvoy (1900–1944) was a French army officer and historian whose work has focused on French colonial holdings in Africa.

Background

Urvoy was born to a family of lower-middle class French-Algerian settlers on 20 January 1900 in Orléansville, Algeria.[1] Relocating to metropolitan France in 1906, the family settled in Paimpol. Urvoy attended the Lycée General David d'Angers, and then École régionale des beaux-arts d'Angers, before undertaking a second art degree at the Central Academy and the St Louis school.[1] 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.

After the occupation of France during World War II, Urvoy collaborated with the Vichy regime.[1] He was assassinated by resistance members in 1944.[1]

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 XXe siècle et la France, Presses universitaires de France (1942)
  • Chronique d’Agadès

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Urvoy, Dominic. "Yves Urvoy (1900-1944)". www.persee.fr (in French). Revue de l'histoire des colonies françaises. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
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