Marcel Vallat
Marcel Vallat (born on July 1st 1898, deceased the May 31st 1986 with Charmont-under-Barbuise in the Department of the Paddle in France, buried with Charmont-under-Barbuise in the department of the Paddle in France) was a civil controller of the Morocco, a Ambassador plenipotentiary and a prefect of first class.
Biography
He was the son of Louis-Ferdinand Vallat (1871 - 1919) and of Louise-Eugenie Périnet (1878 - 1963).He was married with Solange Ponty (1908 - 1989) with whom he had three children.
Its studies with the college of Troyes, then Lakanal (Seals) are stopped by the war of 1914-1918. Mobilized in artillery, it is wounded in Verdun. Its license of letters completed, it learns Arabic, and leaves graduate the School of the Eastern languages. In 1923, during the war of Rif, he is professor with the Moslem College of Fès.
He succeeds in 1926 the assistance of civil controller in Morocco.
A first nomination in 1931 in Mechra Bel Ksiri enables him to discover, in the village (Gharb), the life, the habits of a country hard and attaching.
Named in 1935 in Rabat with the direction of the businesses of the sherifs, it is familiarized with the operation of Maghzen.
During all its career, he will attend the notabilities, caïds, pashas, intellectuals Moroccan, with whom he will collaborate in the maintenance of peace and the development of the territory.
His/her sons-in-law, Claude Dallier, civil controller, and Jean Bernhardt, officer of the indigenous businesses, will work under his orders.
Whereas France undergoes the war and the occupation, it is promoted, in 1939, chief of area of Meknès.
For one disturbed period, marked mainly by the American unloading in North Africa, it is in charge of various missions like that of chief of area of Tunis in 1942 (then assignment in Algiers).
It will thus attend the Conférence of Brazzaville.
Returned in Rabat in 1944, as chief of area, it is in 1948, Directeur of the Interior, right-hand man of the Resident the General Alphonse Juin.
It is, in 1953, with the Pasha de Marrakech, Thami El Glaoui, the craftsman of the deposition of the Sultan Mohammed Ben Youssef - Mohammed V of Morocco - and of his replacement on the Moroccan throne by Mohammed Ibn Arafa, more favorable to the French presence.
Being opposed to the extremists, in particular the Istiqlal, with the foreign influences and the metropolitan transactions, it cannot prevent the return of the former sultan, event which will succeed, in 1956, with the independence of Morocco.
It takes its retirement in Paris, then definitively withdraws public life in its village of Charmont-under-Barbuise, where it dies out in 1986.
Sources
- Jacques Vallat: for the entirety of the notes
- Birth, death: Solange Ponty
- Burial: Francoise Pile-Sassinot
- Page layout: Julie-Marie Robin-Wagner
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