Yves Urvoy
{{Short description|French historian}}
Yves-François-Marie-Aimé Urvoy (20 January 1900 – August 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.{{Cite journal |last=Urvoy |first=Dominic |title=Yves Urvoy (1900-1944) |url=http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/outre_0300-9513_1978_num_65_238_2079# |access-date=10 March 2015 |journal=Revue Française d'Histoire d'Outre-Mer |date=1978 |volume=65 |issue=238 |pages=64–98 |publisher=Revue de l'histoire des colonies françaises |doi=10.3406/outre.1978.2079 |language=fr}}
Relocating to metropolitan France in 1906, the family settled in Paimpol. Urvoy attended the Lycé
After the occupation of France during World War II, Urvoy collaborated with the Vichy regime. He was assassinated by resistance members in 1944.
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
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Category:French collaborators with Nazi Germany assassinated by the Resistance
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