1st Edition

The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil A Frenchman between France and North Africa

By William A. Hoisington, Jr. Copyright 2005
196 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

199 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

199 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Preface  1. Taxpayer Revolt in France  Part 1: Toward the Sixth of February  Part 2: Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil and the Taxpayers' Federation  2. France's Fall and the Vichy Change  Part 1: Mission to Romania, 1940  Part 2: Le Jour-Echo de Paris  Part 3: Georges Lesieur et ses Fils  3. Defending French Africa  4. Working for Giraud  5. To Die in Casablanca  Conclusion  Bibliography

Biography

William A. Hoisington, Jr is Professor Emeritus of Modern European and French Colonial History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of two prize-winning books on the history of French imperialism in North Africa, 'The Casablanca Connection: French Colonial Policy, 1936-1943' (North Carolina, 1984), which has been translated into French and Arabic, and 'Lyautey and the French Conquest of Morocco' (St. Martin's & Macmillan, 1995).