Marc Michel

Marc Michel and a French historian, author of a thesis and several works on the history of Africa, the colonial history and the Decolonization, Professor emeritus of the University of Provence, having taught several years in Africa, before being a Professor at the University Paris L Pantheon-Sorbonne like at the University of Clermont-Ferrand II.

Marc Michel made in 2006 part of the Scientific committee of the Historial of the Great War with Fibula and he is the editor association of the review “Overseas”

Marc Michel published “the Africans and the Great War. The call to Africa (1914-1918)” , published at Karthala, October 24th, 2003, which evokes the 200.000 “ Senegalese Tirailleurs ” of AOF of which more than 135.000 came to fight in Europe, and from which 30.000 will die.

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • emission of France-Culture, Dec. 2, 2006, titrated “14 - 18: Africans in the trenches”, with the Historian Marc Michel.

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