Un fonctionnaire aux Colonies
(A Civil Servant in the Colonies): Romain Louis Auger
Personnel files at the Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer: through the life of a magistrate in the colonies, Romain Louis Auger (1798-1831), the reader can find out about one of the fates of colonial civil servants, and also find the necessary information for performing a search in a colonial personnel file.
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Bataille du rhum (The Rum Battle)
In 1674 the "Bataille du rhum" took place in Martinique, or how several Frenchmen dealt with the powerful Dutch fleet....
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Amet Crékiba,
a Moor with a big heart
A rescuer of those who were shipwrecked on the "Medusa" for whom the ANOM was surprised to find a request for help in the personnel files, which made it possible to retrace his destiny. An unexpected follow-up to the dossier "The shipwrecked from the Medusa" produced in 2010.
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Félix Eboué
This very unusual person, the grandson of slaves, was among the companions of the early days of General de Gaulle
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At the Algeria-Tunisia border
in 1960
Photographs taken by Dominique Darbois in August 1960 on the Algeria-Tunisia border in the FLN refugee camps (particularly at Ghardimaou) and in Tunis.
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Vaccari's African album
Undoubtedly the first work from the presses in Algiers.... This collection of 24 lithographed costumes is both a bibliographical curiosity and an ethnographic testimony of life in Algiers about 1830.
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Escapes from the penal colony
Escape: A subject of fantasy and hard reality lived by numbers of detainees in the colonial prisons, very few escaped but everyone dreamed of it. |
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Hanoi, images of the colonial city
To join in the Hanoi millennium celebrations which were marked in the Vietnamese capital in 2009, a collaboration with the Vietnam Archives to present as many plans which marked the development of the city as there are symbolic monuments. |
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The shipwrecked from the Medusa
Who knows the historic reality which is the basis for the Géricault painting? An episode in colonial history for which many witness accounts are kept in the Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer. |
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The Guernut Commission:
Front Populaire Commission of Enquiry
In 1937 it had to take stock of "the legitimate needs and aspirations of the populations inhabiting the colonies" in order to implement reforms. However it only lasted a year, but the information, sketches and photos it collected are a mine of exciting information. |
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In the penal colony in Guyana in 1884
71 pencil sketches drawn by Charles Picard, Deputy Head of the Penitentiary Administration Office, on the sites of the penal colony in Guyana: their historic and artistic value are unmatched.
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Trumelet-Faber:
Diary of an exploration
In 1891 on the discovery of the Indochina of the Moi people: notebooks observing the mores and customs of these people he spent time with during the 650 km of the expedition, and also many photos. |
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Women's adornments
Through photos from the Ulysse image database, transversal research on feminine adornments in the various countries of the French colonial empires. |
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Daumas-Abdelkader:
a meeting
To evoke Zoummeroff dating, the fascinating meeting of two enemies brought together by many things. |
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"Colonial education office"
How history and geography are taught - nostalgia of these large educational wall panels which decorated the walls of primary classes in the first half of the XXth Century - they enliven the imagination while hailing a policy. |
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"Odette Du Puigaudeau"
The journey of an authentic, brave Breton explorer who travelled in Mauritania in the 1930s with her little "Kodak Junior". The "eye" where there is a mixture of a real graphic gift and a way of looking at people.... |
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"Pestel's Indochina"
Aurélien Pestel (1855-1897) took a large number of photographs of Indochina: his pictures were copied in numerous publications. The album, from which several extracts have been selected here, was presented at the World Exhibition in Lyons in 1894: remarkable photos in an album with a traditional Vietnamese lacquer binding that is, itself, a work of art. |
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"Colonial hygiene guide"
A series of humorous posters published in Saigon in the 1940s and highlighting the elementary instructions on prophylaxis designed for the colonial troops in the Far East..... |
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" The detention of Alfred Dreyfus
on Devil's Island"
What was Alfred Dreyfus doing on Devil's Island? What was the place where he was detained like? Here we have a glimpse of some of the answers... |
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"Colonial Exhibition
in Paris - 1931"
These enormous events that were the great exhibitions required logistics on a similar scale: showcases, poster projects, international advertising, concourses for the lighting, public toilets, entrance tickets, organised travel, etc., so many items that the organising committee had to take into account. |
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"Costumes of the French Union"
In 1946 a series of very beautiful graphic plates in colour by Emile Gallois showing the costumes of the French Union, territories placed under the authority of the French Republic: here in Indochina. |
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