Léon Solomiac (19 October 1873 in
Cajarc
Cajarc () is a commune in the Lot department, Occitania, France.
It is a stopping place on the Via podiensis, the medieval pilgrimage route from Le Puy-en-Velay to Santiago de Compostela, but also attracts tourists on account of its medieval to ...
– 10 May 1960 in
Cannes
Cannes ( , , ; oc, Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. T ...
) was a colonial administrator in various colonies of the
French Colonial Empire.
Life
Solomiac was a son of a
shopkeeper. In the course of his career in the French colonial service, he was appointed in July 1925 as a delegate in Beirut then in 1930 in Damascus, during the
French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
The Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (french: Mandat pour la Syrie et le Liban; ar, الانتداب الفرنسي على سوريا ولبنان, al-intidāb al-fransi 'ala suriya wa-lubnān) (1923−1946) was a League of Nations mandate foun ...
. After the deposition of
Taj al-Din al-Hasani, Solomiac officiated on 19 November 1931 as head of state of the Syrian Republic until 11 June 1932, when
Mohammed Ali al-Abed was elected by the Syrian Parliament to the presidency.
Later on, Solomiac went to Africa in which he became the governor of
French Sudan from 22 May to 30 November 1933 on an interim basis. On 15 August 1934 he became the successor of
François Adrien Juvanon as a governor of
French India, he held this position until October 1936. On 21 April 1939 he became the Governor-General of
French Equatorial Africa
French Equatorial Africa (french: link=no, Afrique-Équatoriale française), or the AEF, was the federation of French colonial possessions in Equatorial Africa, extending northwards from the Congo River into the Sahel, and comprising what are ...
, he remained in office until 3 September 1939. On 7 November 1940 Solomiac took over from Jean Alexandre Léon Rapenne the interim post of Governor of
Niger
)
, official_languages =
, languages_type = National languages[Vichy regime
Vichy France (french: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State ('), was the fascist French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its ter ...](_blank)
as being not loyal to them, and was replaced on 8 December 1940 by General Maurice Falvy. In August 1944, Léon Solomiac was entrusted with the management of official duties of the prefecture of
Tarn. He was the "Prefect of the
Libération", replacing a prefect appointed by the Vichy regime in July 1944, and was in office until early 1946.
References
1873 births
1960 deaths
Colonial Governors of French Mali
Colonial Governors of French Niger
French colonial governors and administrators
Governors of French Equatorial Africa
Governors of French India
People of French West Africa
{{France-politician-stub