ABSTRACT
Lemaigre Dubreuil’s assassination ended a turbulent career on a note of hope, for although this was not the fate he had marked out for himself, his death accomplished some of what he had wanted to achieve between France and Morocco. And he was a willing risk-taker whenever the interests of France were at stake. As soldier, as president of Georges Lesieur et ses Fils and of the Taxpayers’ Federation, as an elected member of the Bank of France, as a wartime conspirator with America and counselor to General Giraud, as a postwar writer of books and articles, as a newspaper owner, and as an adviser to his countrymen (and one president and three premiers of the Fourth Republic) on matters Moroccan, he displayed the daring, patriotism, imagination, and conviction that characterized everything he did. In truth, if he was a conservative by instinct and upbringing, he was a rebel of sorts at heart. Only at the very end of his life, however, did he find the success or recognition in the civic sphere that matched his accomplishment in the economic marketplace.
