Mohammed V of Morocco

Mohammed V Ben Youssef (in Arabic: محمدالخامس ) (born the August 10th 1909 - died the February 26th 1961) was Sultan (1927), then king (1957 - 1961) of the Morocco after independence.

This dynaste alaouite supported as of 1944 the Istiqlal, Moroccan independence main movement and was opposed to the continuation of the French domination. Consequently, it was deposited the August 20th 1953 and was constrained with the exile (successively in Corsica then with Madagascar) until the November 16th 1955.

It remains regarded by much as the " Father of the nation marocaine" ( ab Al watan Al maghribi ). It was decorated with the order of the companions of the Release by Charles de Gaulle, then president of the French Republic.

During the Second world war he refused to apply the decrees anti-semites of the Régime of Vichy. During the War of Algeria, it provides weapons and men to FLN. It supports logistiquement and politically Congolese the Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba.

Others

The July 26th 1929, Holy Lucien, resident general of Morocco at that time, invited the sultan of Morocco, Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef (future Mohammed V) then 19 years old, which, in holiday with Luchon, company of its top dog and his interpreter, were accepted very ceremoniously with the town hall of Marignac. They affixed, all three, their signatures, in Arab characters, in the register of the deliberations.

See too

External bonds

  • Bonds on Mohammed V and history of Morocco

  • Mausoleum Mohammed V with Reduction
  • Testimony of personalities on the official site of Mohammed V in Morocco

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