ITINÉRAIRES AU MAROC 1883-84

Foucauld, Charles de

Numéro d'objet:	864
Date:	1887
Genre:	Revue
Lieu:	Paris
Sujet:	Géographie / Géologie

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Ouvrage fondamental et célèbre.Il convient cependant de noter que le voyage de Ch. de Foucauld a été effectué au moment où le Maroc sortait à peine d'une terrible crise économique.Les jugements de C. de Foulcauld en portent la marque.Il faudrait tenir compte aussi de la personnalité de certains de ses informateurs. L'étude critique scientifique de l'ouvrage reste en grande partie à faire.

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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