Charles-Robert Ageron [SEP] date of birth
Charles-Robert Ageron
Charles-Robert Ageron (6 November 1923 – 3 September 2008) was a French historian specializing in colonial Algeria. He was born on November 6, 1923 in Lyon and died on September 3, 2008 in Kremlin-Bicêtre.
Education and career.
Born in Lyon, teacher of history, he taught at the Gautier high school in Algiers from 1947, then at the Lakanal high school in Sceaux from 1957. He was a research associate at CNRS from 1959 to 1961. He became
historian Charles-Robert Ageron, Kedourie condemned Ageron for being sympathetic to the FLN. He again denounced de Gaulle for granting Algeria independence, writing that the Algerians "were cruelly abandoned to the mercies of the FLN, a handful of "purs et durs", spurred on by nationalism, that curse of the modern world to seize power and rule for their own benefit. Their Arabizing policies, however, had opened up the country to the influence of fundamentalist movements like the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East, so that Islam