{{Short description|French historian}} '''Yves-François-Marie-Aimé Urvoy''' (20 January 1900 – August 1944) was a French army officer and historian whose work has focused on French colonial holdings in Africa.
==Background== Urvoy was born to a family of lower-middle class French-Algerian settlers on 20 January 1900 in Orléansville, Algeria.<ref name="persee">{{Cite journal |last=Urvoy |first=Dominic |title=Yves Urvoy (1900-1944) |url=http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/outre_0300-9513_1978_num_65_238_2079# |access-date=10 March 2015 |journal=Revue Française d'Histoire d'Outre-Mer |date=1978 |volume=65 |issue=238 |pages=64–98 |publisher=Revue de l'histoire des colonies françaises |doi=10.3406/outre.1978.2079 |language=fr}}</ref> Relocating to metropolitan France in 1906, the family settled in Paimpol. Urvoy attended the Lycé<nowiki/>e General David d'Angers, and then École régionale des beaux-arts d'Angers, before undertaking a second art degree at the Central Academy and the St Louis school.<ref name="persee" /> Urvoy trained at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres from 1918 to 1920 but upon completion of his training, decided to instead pursue a career in the military.
After the occupation of France during World War II, Urvoy collaborated with the Vichy regime.<ref name="persee" /> He was assassinated by resistance members in 1944.<ref name="persee" />
==Works== *''Petit atlas ethno-démographique du Soudan, entre Sénégal et Tchad''- Larose (1942) *''Les bassins du Niger : étude de géographie physique et de paléogéographie'' Larose (1942) *''Histoire des populations du Soudan central colonie du Niger''- Larose (1936) *''Renaître Essais'' avec François Perroux-Éditions de la Renaissance européenne (1943) *''Le Syndicalisme base d'une organisation communautaire économique dans le monde de demain'' *''La Révolution du XX<sup>e</sup> siècle et la France'', Presses universitaires de France (1942) *''Chronique d’Agadès''
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