Hippolyte Laroche
Born(1848-01-26)26 January 1848
Lyon, France
Died14 September 1914(1914-09-14) (aged 66)
Le Mans, Sarthe, France
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Colonial administrator, politician
Known forAbolition of slavery in Madagascar

Hippolyte Laroche (26 January 1848 - 14 September 1914) was a French naval officer, colonial administrator and politician. While Resident General of Madagascar he succeeded in abolishing slavery.

Career

Hippolyte Laroche was born on 26 January 1848 in Lyon, France. His father was a colonel of the Engineers. Laroche attended Naval Academy and became a naval officer. He was then made prefect of Charente, Algiers, Loire and Haute-Garonne.[1]

Laroche was appointed Resident General in Madagascar, and arrived at Tananarive on 16 January 1896.[2] Paul Anthelme Bourde was appointed Secretary General of Madagascar in 1895.[3] Bourde left France for Madagascar in January 1896. He soon fell out with Laroche, who accused him of trying to usurp his position.[4] In his short term of office, Laroche succeeded in passing a law that abolished slavery. He had the difficult task of keeping a balance between the French settlers and military and Queen Ranavalona III. He did not succeed since he had no control over the military, who pursued a scorched earth policy in suppressing an uprising of the local people. He left on 10 October 1896 when the government ended his mission.[2]

Laroche signed the Adresse à Dreyfus that appeared in L'Aurore in September 1899.[5] On 19 February 1904 Laroche was an unsuccessful candidate for the Assembly in a by-election for the arrondissement of La Flèche. In the general elections the next year he ran again and won by a narrow margin. He ran again in 1910 and was reelected. He was a member of commissions on Foreign affairs and the colonies, posts and telegraphs and the military.[1]

Laroche died on 14 September 1914 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France.[1]

References

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 Jolly 1960.
  2. 1 2 Ranaivo 1979.
  3. ↑ Voizard 1989.
  4. ↑ Finch 2013, p. 173.
  5. ↑ Hippolyte Laroche et Martin Freystaetter.

Sources

  • Finch, Michael P.M. (2013-08-15). A Progressive Occupation?: The Gallieni-Lyautey Method and Colonial Pacification in Tonkin and Madagascar, 1885–1900. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-967457-2. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  • "Hippolyte Laroche et Martin Freystaetter". Le site des archives Zola. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
  • Jolly, Jean (1960). "Hippolyte Laroche". Dictionnaire des parlementaires français de 1889 à 1940. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
  • Ranaivo, Flavien (1979). "Hippolyte Laroche". Hommes et destins: dictionnaire biographique d'Outre-mer. Madagascar. Académie des sciences d'outre-mer. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
  • Voizard, Pierre (1989). "Paul, Anthelme BOURDE (1851–1914)" (PDF). Hommes et destines (Dictionnaire biographique d'Outre-Mer). Retrieved 2014-03-03.
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