René Tirant
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René Tirant (born 1907, date of death unknown) was a colonial administrator in French Africa in the 20th century. He was the acting Governor of Dahomey in 1958 when Dahomey became an autonomous republic, and remained High Commissioner till 1960 Dahomey became an independent country now known as Benin. From 1962 to 1966, he was the Governor of French Somaliland, which later became Djibouti.[1]
References
- ↑ Thompson, Virginia, and Richard Adloff. Djibouti and the Horn of Africa. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1968. Print. pg. 82
External links
- Reference to "the late René Tirant" (French)
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