page_title: Alfred Albert Martineau
hierarchical_section_title: Alfred Albert Martineau
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Portrait d'Alfred Martineau (1859-1945) député, fonctionnaire colonial et professeur au Collège de France. English: Portrait of Alfred Martineau (1859–1945), French politician, colonial administrator and professor of colonial history at the Collège de France.
context_page_description: Alfred Albert Martineau was a notable historian and colonial administrator in the French Colonial Empire.
  He wrote extensively on colonial affairs and the history of French colonial expansion, in particular a six-volume Histoire des colonies françaises et de l'expansion française dans le monde co-authored with former French Foreign Minister Gabriel Hanotaux. Upon retirement from colonial service in 1921 he taught colonial history at the Collège de France until 1935.
  He was a founding member of the Société de l'histoire de l'Inde française, the Societe francaise d'Histoire d'Outre-Mer and the Académie des sciences coloniales.
context_section_description: Alfred Albert Martineau (18 December 1859 in Artins – 25 January 1945 in Varennes) was a notable historian and colonial administrator in the French Colonial Empire.
  He wrote extensively on colonial affairs and the history of French colonial expansion, in particular a six-volume Histoire des colonies françaises et de l'expansion française dans le monde (1930–1934) co-authored with former French Foreign Minister Gabriel Hanotaux. Upon retirement from colonial service in 1921 he taught colonial history at the Collège de France until 1935.
  He was a founding member of the Société de l'histoire de l'Inde française, the Societe francaise d'Histoire d'Outre-Mer (1912) and the Académie des sciences coloniales (1922).
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