Germain Ayache () was a Moroccan historian born in 1915.
Biography
He was born to a Jewish Moroccan family in 1915, with some sources giving his place of birth as
Berkane
Berkane () is a city in northeastern Morocco, limited by the Mediterranean to the north, the Kis river (Moroccan-Algerian border) and Oujda Province in the east, Nador Province to the west, and Taourirt Province in the south. It is the capital o ...
and others
Saïdia
Saïdia (; ''Ajrud''), known as the ''"Blue Pearl"'', is a coastal town in northeastern Morocco. It is located in the Berkane Province in the north of Beni Znassen region, lying in the adjacent metropolitan area of Berkane itself, along the Me ...
. He earned a degree with distinction in European classical literature in
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...
, France in 1935. He returned to Morocco to teach, then moved back to France. He returned to Morocco at the time of its independence. He joined the faculty of history at the college of literature in Rabat in 1957. He died in
Nice
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