ODINOT (Paul). Une encyclopédie savante du Maroc... Lot n° 298

Encyclopedia Moroccan 1930. Typescript by Paul Odinot. Approximately 400 pages and a total of 1936 entries not including the treaties. In loose sheets (31 x 22 cm) assembled under staples alphabetically. The notes cover all periods and all subjects of Moroccan history. Unpublished work from the collection of the orientalist publisher Paul Geuthner. Geranium or the life of a Moroccan woman by the same author. Illustrations by Marguerite DELORME. Rabat, Moncho, sd. In-12 paperback, cover illustrated in colors printed. First edition (current edition without the illustrations). Worn cover, foxing. Historian and novelist, Paul Odinot (1884 1958) was an officer of the Indigenous Affairs in Morocco. He had a very close relationship with this country through his marriage to a Moroccan woman. He is the author of: le Caïd Abdallah (1921), Le monde marocain (1926), La première communion d'Abd-el-Kader (1925), Géranium, ou la vie d'une femme marocaine (1932) which earned him the disgrace of the Resident General. He also wrote nearly two hundred historical articles on the Muslim world and Morocco. Openly critical in his novels of the politics of the protectorate, he left the army in 1930. His recognized value as an Arabist, his knowledge of the Moroccan soul and his experience of the tribes of the North and of the Riff made him return to Morocco where he was elected to the College of Fez and was then forgotten from public life.