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Jean Robichez

French officer; collected Amazigh poems on the conquest of the Central Atlas between 1936 and 1938 and published the album Maroc central in 1946.

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J. Robichez

Biography

Bounfour pays tribute to him as the one who “was drawn into the battle against these poets but did them justice”, in an article in Les Temps modernes in 1949. His album Maroc central, 123 photographies commentées (Arthaud, 1946) publishes the portrait and caption of “Hasso ou Ba Selem”.

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  • Life dates unknown in our sources (the BnF authority record does not give them).

Sources — 2 sources cited · 2 independent documentary line(s)

  1. Bounfour, 1989 — p. 91-92Full text consulted · Academic research
  2. Robichez, 1946 — p. 48-49Excerpts consulted · Colonial literature

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  1. 1936 – 1938Confirmed by a verified source

    Jean Robichez collects Amazigh poems on the conquest

    Between 1936 and 1938 the officer Jean Robichez collected a corpus of poems, mostly among the Aït Sokhman, about the 1927-1933 conquest; Abdallah Bounfour analysed them in 1989.

    Sources — 1 sources cited · 1 independent documentary line(s)

    1. Bounfour, 1989 — p. 91-92Full text consulted · Academic research