Elie Emile William Auguste Solier (17 May 1914 – 2 July 1984) was a
New Caledonia
New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...
n lawyer and politician. He was a member of the General Council from 1953 to 1957.
Biography
Solier was born in
Nouméa
Nouméa () is the capital and largest city of the French Sui generis collectivity, special collectivity of New Caledonia and is also the largest Francophone city in Oceania. It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main i ...
in 1914 to Emile Marius Basile Solier and Claire Hilda Hodgson. He attended university in France, where he studied law. Returning to New Caledonia, he became one of the leading lawyers in the territory,Elie Solier ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', September 1984, p73 and began serving as a magistrate. He married Winnifred Violetta Nicholls in 1937, with whom he had three children.
During
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
he helped oust the pro-Vichy administration in 1940. In May 1942 he and several other key figures fell out with
Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu
Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu (), in religion Father Louis of the Trinity, OCD (7 August 1889 – 7 September 1964), was a Discalced Carmelite friar and priest, who was also a diplomat and French Navy officer and admiral; he became a major pe ...
, a visiting representative of
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free France, Free French Forces against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government of the French Re ...
, resulting in him being deported to
Walpole Island
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alongside Governor
Henri Sautot
Henri Camille Sautot (5 May 1885 – 23 March 1963) was a French colonial governor.
Biography
Sautot was born in Bourbonne-les-Bains and attended school in Nancy.Edge of war ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', October 1946, pp41–56
In
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...
he was elected to the General Council from the South constituency as part of the Bonneaud group, serving until the 1957 elections. In the same year he and Winnifred divorced and he married Odette Antoinette Augustine Antoniou, with whom he had a daughter.
He died in Nouméa in July 1984 at the age of 70.