Eugène Daumas

Melchior Joseph Eugène Daumas ( born September 4, 1803 in Delemont, Canton of Jura, Switzerland, † April 29, 1871 in Camblanes, Canton Creon, Gironde ) was a French general and author.

Daumas occurred in 1822 in the army. He participated since 1835 in the campaigns against Abd el-Kader, in which he was in 1837-39 as consul to mascara. Daumas, the powerful Arab, was the first head of the Bureaux arabes in Algeria under the French command haves Thomas -Robert Bugeaud; Daumas was of Bugeaud with the restructuring of the affaires indigènes, the " domestic affairs " in charge. In 1850 he was appointed as a director of the Algerian affairs in the Ministry of War in Paris. 1858-59 he was President of the Paris Geographical Society.

Among contemporaries in particular found his work to the " horses of the Sahara " and " The Arab life " attention.

Works

• Le Sahara algérien études historiques sur la région géographiques et au sud of établissements français en Algérie. Langlois et Leclercq, Paris 1845
• La Grande Kabylie. Hachette, Paris 1847
• Le Grand Désert itinéraire ou d'une caravane du Sahara au pays des nègres. Chaix et Cie, Paris 1848
• Moeurs et de l' Algérie coutumes. Hachette, Paris 1853
• Les Chevaux du Sahara et les mœurs du desert. Lévy, Paris 1858
• La Vie et la société arabe musulmane. Lévy, Paris 1869