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607:, where the villagers informed him that Voulet and his men were just a few hours' march ahead. He sent an African sergeant with two soldiers to give Voulet a letter informing him that he had been removed from his position and was to return home immediately; to this Voulet replied that he had 600 guns against his (Klobb's) fifty, and would use them if he dared to come near. Voulet and Chanoine were careful not to inform the other officers of Klobb's letter, and in the following days kept them occupied in raids. On July 13 he conducted his last massacre: after a villager killed two of his men, Voulet had 150 women and children slaughtered. The same evening he wrote a second letter to Klobb, in which he again told him not to try to come closer. 630: 589: 479: 645:). The officers' reaction was far from enthusiastic, and their mood infected the troop. On July 16 an informer told Voulet that the troop was about to mutiny. Voulet and Chanoine assembled the riflemen, and after shooting the informer in front of the troop—for informing him too late of the impending mutiny—Voulet harangued the soldiers about their duty to obey their leaders, while at the same time shooting at them. The Senegalese returned fire, killing Chanoine, but Voulet escaped into the darkness and found refuge with some villagers. A 523:). The column was by now 2,000 men strong, well over the number that their supplies could sustain. Even though they were in French-controlled areas, Voulet's troops started pillaging, looting, raping, and killing. Among the most brutal episodes was the sacking of the village of Sansanné-Haoussa on 8 January 1899. One hundred and one people were killed, among them thirty women and children, to set an example in retaliation for the wounding of a couple of his soldiers. When at the end of the month the mission left the 37: 25: 600:" passage; a trail of burned villages and charred corpses. He passed trees where women had been hanged, and cooking fires where children had been roasted. He also found the corpses of the expedition's guides; those that had displeased Voulet had been strung up alive in a position that the foot went to the hyenas and the rest of the body to the vultures. 724:, north around the western and northern shores of the lake and then south along its eastern shore. Here they encountered Joalland who had travelled north, up the east side of the lake, to meet them. The united expeditions, now under the overall command of Lamy, returned south to Joalland's base camp on the right bank of the 620:
medal pinned on his chest, proceeded alone toward Voulet, who kept telling him to go back. To emphasise his warnings Voulet ordered two salvos fired in the air. When Klobb addressed Voulet's men, reminding them of their duties, Voulet threatened them with a pistol and ordered them to open fire. Klobb
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on 20 April to arrest Voulet and Chanoine and send orders to the Governor-General of French Sudan, Colonel Vimard, to have them replaced at the head of the mission with the governor of Timbuktu, Klobb. Among the chief concerns of the French government was that Voulet was carrying out his depredations
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The four months of delay in the start of the mission—and the very limited funds granted—had dire consequences for the future. Voulet completely ignored the local hierarchies and took liberties with the orders he received, which were anyway very vague—he was asked only to explore the territory between
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on December 7, 1900 the formation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry, the government rejected the request as being "dangerous and purposeless". An enquiry requested by the Ministry of Colonies was closed on December 1, 1902, claiming that Voulet and Chanoine had been driven mad by the dreadful
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Amadou was killed on September 15 during a skirmish, which brought Zinder's territory under full control. This freed the two French officers to leave Zinder on October 3 to continue with their reconnaissance. They took 170 men and a cannon, while 100 men were left behind to secure the city under the
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In January, Lt. Peteau, one of the mission's officers, told Voulet that he had had enough and was leaving; Voulet countered by dismissing him on 29 January 1899 for "lack of discipline and enthusiasm." This decision eventually backfired: on 15 February Peteau wrote a letter to his fiancée that fully
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respectively. The refusal of the expedition commander and his second-in-command to follow orders from France, their murder of a commanding officer and their subsequent deaths at the hands of their own soldiers cast a dark shadow over France's emerging colonial empire in Africa at the end of the 19th
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When, in August 1899, the government made public the atrocities committed by the Voulet's expedition and the murder of Klobb, a storm of indignation arose from the press, and France's claim of a "civilizing mission" in Africa was tarnished, as was the army, whose prestige was already considerably
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Klobb did not believe the other officers or the riflemen would dare to kill, or let be killed, a superior officer. He was unaware that Voulet had kept the new orders secret, and that as a precaution Voulet had made sure only himself and Chanoine would be present to receive him. Consequently, the
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The last chapter of Voulet's rebellion was played out the following morning, when he tried to reenter the camp, but was blocked by a sentry who refused to let him pass. Voulet shot at him but missed, and the sentry killed him. Pallier, who was now in command, decided to take
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fiction. Here the protagonist is not the conqueror, the invader who is openly censured, but the African queen that refuses to submit, and whose heroism is extolled. There is no pretence of impartiality: the author himself was to call his work a
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also consumed the attention of French politicians, making it even more difficult for Voulet to be heard. In spite of these obstacles, he successfully obtained approval for his project, with the help of his adjutant Chanoine.
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The mission was the brainchild of Voulet, who saw it as a means to further his career. He actively sought support from French politicians, which was difficult to obtain because conflicts divided and preoccupied the
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of the colonial borders), uniting with the Foureau-Lamy mission and destroying Rabih's empire, which permitted the institution in September by the French government of the military territory of Chad.
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following morning, Klobb proceeded with his men to Dankori, where Voulet waited. Upon seeing him, Voulet ordered his men to disperse and sent Klobb a last warning, which Klobb ignored.
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detailed the atrocities committed by Voulet and Chanoine that he had witnessed. Peteau's fiancée contacted her local deputy, who promptly sent her letter on to the Minister of Colonies
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leaving immediately for French Sudan while the remaining 270 riflemen (who had pledged to continue the mission for another year) put themselves under the command of Lt.
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fell, wounded, still ordering his men not to return fire; but his words were truncated by a new salvo that killed Klobb, while his soldiers fled.
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about the horror of Niger's colonial past, in particular focusing on Paul Voulet's horrific behavior, was produced as a non-fiction retelling of
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century. The expedition is remembered for its descent into depravity and extreme violence, actions which today would legally be considered
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by November. Joalland, the doctor Henric and the other French officers, due to the military success of the campaign, were able to avoid
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then informed Lt. Pallier, the first French officer he found, of what had happened, and pledged the loyalty of the troop to him.
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that were pressed into service. The force was directed by nine Europeans: the two commanders, the artillery expert lieutenant
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and unify all French territories in West Africa. This expedition operated jointly with two other expeditions, the
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On the evening of Klobb's assassination, Voulet informed his officers of the clash and, while stripping off his
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to pass into the semi-desert areas extending east, their march became an endless orgy of looting and killing.
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command of Sergeant Bouthel, who was awaiting the Foureau-Lamy mission that was heading towards Zinder from
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Klobb, after telling his men not to open fire under any circumstances, in full-dress uniform and with his
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as his second. Meanwhile, Voulet was meeting considerable resistance to his advance from the local queen
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epidemic broke out. By the end of the first two months the mission had lost 148 bearers to dysentery.
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Shortly afterwards, Pallier left Zinder with 300 riflemen to make a reconnaissance of the route to
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left Zinder, moving south-east towards the Komadugu Yobe River. They followed this river east to
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After a long period of oblivion, the memory of the expedition was revived in 1976 by the writer
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in April 1900; shortly afterwards, on April 21, they were joined by a third expedition, the
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to two known psychopaths in uniform," especially as Voulet had already told the governor of
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The expedition's eventual success greatly reduced the public indignation; and when the
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Voulet's and Chanoine's graves near the village of Maijirgui, Niger. Photo taken 1906.
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Je ne suis plus Français, je suis un chef noir. Avec vous, je vais fonder un empire
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On 10 July, after a pursuit of over 2000 km, Klobb arrived at Damangara, near
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Joalland and Meynier remained for some time in Zinder to pacify the area; the
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Having achieved their goals, Joalland and Meynier left Chad and returned to
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Voulet and Chanoine reunited with the expedition in January at
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at Lougou on 16 April he encountered his hardest battle yet
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that he meant to crush any resistance by burning villages.
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Paul Voulet
Julien Chanoine
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Scramble for Africa
South Africa (1879)
South Africa (1880)
Tunisia (1881)
Sudan (1881)
Egypt (1882)
Wassoulou (1883)
Madagascar (1883)
Equatoria (1886–89)
Somalia (1888–1924)
Eritrea (1889)
Congo (1895)
Dahomey (1890)
Mashonaland (1890)
Katanga (1891−92)
Dahomey (1892)
Matabeleland (1893)
Morocco (1893–94)
Wassoulou (1894)
Ashanti (1895)
South Africa (1895)
Ethiopia (1896)
Matabeleland (1896)
Zanzibar (1896)
Benin (1897)

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