Georges Destenave

Georges Destenave (17 May 1854 – 23 December 1928) was a French general and colonial administrator. After serving in Algeria and in the French Sudan, he was appointed as the Military Governor of France's Chad Territory in 1900. It was written that Destenave's rule "was so repressive and flogging with the chicotte (whip) so frequent that reference to the "Code Destenave" became common.^[1]

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 39678672 ISNI: 0000 0000 0528 5579 SUDOC: 153360100 BNF: cb15316882d (data) Léonore: LH/760/15

References

↑ "Destenave, Georges Mathieu (1854-1928), in Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic, Richard Bradshaw and Juan Fandos-Rius, editors (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) p217

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