L'EXPLORATION DE MELLAH EN MELLAH PAR DE FOUCAULD

Sermaye, Jean

Numéro d'objet:	325
Date:	1936
Genre:	Article
Lieu:	Paris
Sujet:	Judaisme marocain

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More talked and written about than actually read, Foucauld’s life (1858[-]1916) continues to exercise an unerring fascination. As a dissolute young cavalry officer he tried to spend his way through his aristocratic inheritance. Later he resigned from his cavalry regiment, then based in Algeria, in order to make a tactical reconnaissance of Morocco for the benefit of the French army, disguised as a poor Jewish trader. Having published his report he became a mendicant in southern Algeria, and later a Trappist monk in the Holy Land. He was ordained and then established his own order in the Tuareg-controlled mountains of central Sahara. There he devoted himself to scholarship on the Tamasheq language, testimony to Christ and supplying military information for the benefit of the French army. He was killed during the Senussi-backed uprising in the Sahara in 1916. The French army subsequently pardoned all rebels except the small band that had martyred Foucauld.

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