Jean Chalvet
French colonial official
About Jean Chalvet
Lived 1893 – 1975 (aged 82).
Jean Victor Louis Joseph Chalvet (15 June 1893 – 28 July 1975) was a French colonial official.
Born in Tours, he studied at the École supérieure de commerce de Lille before joining the colonial service. His first overseas posting was to Mauritania in 1921. Afterwards he returned to France, obtaining a diploma from the École coloniale in Paris in 1927.
Between 1930 and 1944 he served in a variety of roles in French West Africa: in Senegal and Soudan (1930), in the Ivory Coast (1933), in Guinea (1936), in Dakar in the French West African administration (1939) and in Mauritania again (1941). In May 1944 he was appointed governor of French Somaliland, but he lasted only a few weeks before Jean Beyries took over as acting governor.
In October 1946 he was appointed governor of Ubangi-Shari. In this last capacity, he did not get along with the anti-colonial activist Barthélemy Boganda. He left office in April 1948.
After a long retirement, Chalvet died at Vincennes in 1975.
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Jean Chalvet was born on 15 June 1893.
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Jean Chalvet died on 28 July 1975.
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