André Adam

André Clément Henri Adam (30 July 1911, in Saint-Lô – 2 July 1991, in Veulettes-sur-Mer) was a French colonial researcher and professor specialized in the social sciences, letters, Arabic, and North Africa. He wrote extensively on Casablanca, Morocco, publishing a two volume study of the city's transformation with contact with the west entitled Casablanca: essai sur la transformation de la société marocaine au contact de l'Occident, and a general history of the city up to 1914 entitled Histoire de Casablanca: des origines à 1914.

Education He studied literature at l’École normale supérieure (1933), earned a diploma from l’École libre des sciences politiques (1935), and earned an Agrégation de Lettres (1936). Histoire de Casablanca : des origines à 1914. Gap : Ophrys, 1968

Awards Legion of Honour Ordre national du Mérite Officier de l’Académie 1949 Order of Ouissam Alaouite 1962