Émile Aubry (18 April 1880,

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Early life

His father, Charles-Albert Aubry, came from

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and was sent to Setif as Lieutenant in the

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. However he decided to settle there, where he became a local

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. His mother was born to French parents who had settled there thirty years previously. Émile grew up there with his brother Georges, before attending boarding school in

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. In 1935 he was elected to the

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