Alfred Albert Martineau (18 December 1859 in Artins – 25 January 1945 in Varennes) was a notable historian and colonial administrator in the French Colonial Empire.
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He wrote extensively on colonial affairs and the history of French colonial expansion, in particular a six-volume Histoire des colonies françaises et de l'expansion française dans le monde (1930–1934) co-authored with former French Foreign Minister Gabriel Hanotaux.[1] Upon retirement from colonial service in 1921 he taught colonial history at the Collège de France until 1935.[2]
He was a founding member of the Société de l'histoire de l'Inde française, the Societe francaise d'Histoire d'Outre-Mer (1912) and the Académie des sciences coloniales (1922).[3]
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edit- ^ Alfred Martineau / Œuvres fr.Wikisource
- ^ Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française edited by François Pouillon
- ^ Martineau, Alfred Albert Sociétés savantes de France
- ^ Henige, David P. (1970). Colonial governors from the fifteenth century to the present: a comprehensive list. University of Texas: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 33. ISBN 9780299054403.