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978-2-84876-886-1. OCLC. 1269504870. The Most Secret Memory of Men (French: La plus secrète mémoire des hommes, lit. 'The Most Secret Memory of Men') is a 2021 novel by Senegalese writer Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. It was co-published on 19 August 2021 by the French independent publisher Éditions Philippe Rey (Paris) with the Senegalese publishing ...
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (born 20 June 1990) [1][2] is a Senegalese writer. Raised in Diourbel, Senegal and later studying in France, Sarr is the author of four novels as well as a number of award-winning short stories. He won the 2021 Prix Goncourt for his novel The Most Secret Memory of Men, becoming the first Sub-Saharan ...
Tirailleurs Sénégalais under the command of Jean-Baptiste Marchand, 1898. The Senegalese Tirailleurs (French: Tirailleurs Sénégalais) were a corps of colonial infantry in the French Army. They were initially recruited from Senegal, French West Africa and subsequently throughout Western, Central and Eastern Africa: the main sub-Saharan ...
This list is extracted from Le Souvenir français member Gérard Gehin's Livre d'or des officiers superieurs morts pour la France guerre 14-18 ("Golden book of superior officers who died for France in the 1914-1918 war"). Gehin's work lists all officers of lieutenant-colonel rank or above, but only the 81 officers who held general rank at the ...
The 12e bataillon de tirailleurs malgaches was the only battalion to be awarded the Fourragère of the Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France) for three unit citations. Up until 22 July 1918, it formed part of the highly decorated 1st Moroccan Infantry Division .
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Front page of Address to the National Assembly by the Société des amis des noirs, February 1790 Front page of Société des amis des noirs, March 1791. The Society of the Friends of the Blacks (Société des amis des Noirs or Amis des noirs) was a French abolitionist society founded by Jacques Pierre Brissot and Étienne Clavière and directly inspired by the Society for Effecting the ...
Victor de Riqueti, Marquis de Mirabeau (French: [miʁabo]; 5 October 1715 – 13 July 1789) was a French economist of the Physiocratic school. He was the father of Honoré, Comte de Mirabeau and André Boniface Louis Riqueti de Mirabeau. He was, in distinction, often referred to as the elder Mirabeau as he had a younger brother, Jean-Antoine ...