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Xavier Coppolani (Marignana, 1866 - Tiyikya, Mauritania, 1905) fue un administrador colonial francés. Coppolani nació en Córcega, donde pasó los diez primeros años de su vida. De allí pasó a Argelia , donde vivían varios miembros de su familia, incluido su abuelo paterno, Jean-Dominique Luciani.
Xavier Coppolani (1866-1905) was a French military and colonial leader, who was instrumental in the colonial occupation and creation of modern-day Mauritania. Early life [ edit ] Born to Corsican parents in French Algeria , his father was considered to be a member of the colon class of French immigrants to the country.
Xavier Coppolani, né le 2 février 1866 à Marignana et mort le 12 mai 1905 à Tidjikdja , est un administrateur colonial français, fondateur du territoire de la Mauritanie [1], considéré par ses descendants comme le « Pacificateur de la Mauritanie » [2].
Xavier Coppolani, nascut l'1 de febrer de 1866 a Marignana i mort el 12 de maig de 1905 a Tidjikdja (Mauritània), fou un administrador colonial francès, fundador del territori de la Mauritània i considerat com el « Pacificador de Mauritània».
Xavier Coppolani (Marignana, 1866 - Tiyikya, Mauritania, 1905) fue un administrador colonial francés.
Born in Corsica in 1866, Xavier Coppolani grew up in Algeria, where he studied Arabic and Islam. He was the author, with Octave Depoint, of a book on religious brotherhoods (1897, Les Confréries Religieuses Musulmanes) and visited eastern Mauritania in 1897.
21 de nov. de 2019 · One particularly poignant example of this has to do with the assassination of the well-known French colonial administrator Xavier Coppolani in 1905. The raid that culminated in Coppolani’s death was led by Sharif Ould Moulay Zein. Zein is someone who currently epitomizes the “resistance narrative” in Mauritania, but was from a Zawaya background.
