Charles-André Julien

{{Short description|French journalist and historian (1891–1991)}}

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| birth_place = Caen, France

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| death_place = Paris, France

| nationality = French

| alma_mater = University of Paris

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Charles-André Julien (2 September 1891 – 19 July 1991) was a French journalist and historian specialised in the history of the Maghreb, his most famous work is Histoire de l'Afrique du Nord : Des origines à 1830 (History of North Africa from the origins to 1830).{{cite news|last=Marc Riglet|title=Colonisation: halte aux amalgames!|url=http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/livre/pour-en-finir-avec-la-repentance-coloniale-histoire-de-la-decolonisation_811589.html|accessdate=29 May 2012|newspaper=L'Express|date=1 June 2010}}{{cite news|last=Mireille Duteil|title=Maroc: la voie royale du prince héritier|url=http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-monde/1996-05-04/maroc-la-voie-royale-du-prince-heritier/924/0/103746|accessdate=29 May 2012|newspaper=Le Point|date=4 May 1996|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416182021/http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-monde/1996-05-04/maroc-la-voie-royale-du-prince-heritier/924/0/103746|archive-date=16 April 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|title="Le Maroc face aux impérialismes 1415–1956" de Charles-André Julien en nouvelle édition|url=http://www.atlasinfo.fr/Le-Maroc-face-aux-imperialismes-1415-1956-de-Charles-Andre-Julien-en-nouvelle-edition_a23977.html|accessdate=29 May 2012|newspaper=Atlas Info}}{{cite news|title=Le Maroc face aux impérialismes|url=http://www.lematin.ma/journal/Edition_Le-Maroc-face-aux-imperialismes/160510.html|accessdate=29 May 2012|newspaper=Le Matin|date=25 December 2011}}

Charles-André Julien was born in Caen, northern France and emigrated with his family to Algeria (then under French occupation) at the age of 15, where he picked up an interest in the history of the region. Julien's History of North Africa served as the standard reference work on the subject for decades. His political commitments and specialized knowledge of North Africa contributed to his place on the Popular Front's Haut Comité méditerranéen et de l'Afrique du Nord from 1936 to 1939 and election to the Council of the French Union from 1946 to 1958. Julien opposed French colonialism, arguing that political rights should be extended to colonized subjects.{{Cite book|last=Lawrence|first=Adria K.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/imperial-rule-and-the-politics-of-nationalism/C25DB67F2AABEA1097273FF7D0518556|title=Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire|date=2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-03709-0|pages=93–94}}

Charles-André Julien taught at the Mohammed V University of Rabat and the Sorbonne of Paris. He was also a regular columnist at the French daily Le Monde.