LYAUTEY, THE RESIDENT

France in Morocco, 1905-1925

By: Guillaume Jobin

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

This book, a bestseller in Morocco since its release, goes against all the received ideas about the resident marshal. With a fresh perspective, the author presents facts still unknown or misinterpreted about Hubert Lyautey and the thirty years of his Moroccan dream, thus bringing an original vision of Franco-Moroccan relations.
General resident in Morocco for twelve years, Lyautey shaped the country he led as no leader has ever been able to do. He certainly restored the splendor of the Cherifian monarchy, but above all he was able to skillfully smooth Moroccan Islam and thus win peace in Morocco for more than a century, that was his real success. Contrary to the legend, Lyautey was neither an aristocrat nor a monarchist but a good republican. More senior civil servant than military, anticolonialist and captivated by the economy, he perfectly fulfilled his mission for France in Morocco.
Artist, atheist, versatile, homosexual, dilettante, independent, narcissistic, subdepressive and impatient, Hubert Lyautey said of himself that he was "all this at the same time and much more!" Finally, he is above all the father of 'the Franco-Moroccan exception', the privileged good understanding between the two nations!
The author: Guillaume Jobin, former president of the Paris School of Journalism. He lives in Morocco.