Murder in Marrakesh: Émile Mauchamp and the French Colonial Adventure

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Murder in Marrakesh Murder in Marrakesh Émile Mauchamp and the French Colonial Adventure Jonathan G. Katz INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS BLOOMINGTON AND INDIANAPOLIS This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA http://iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail iuporder@indiana.edu© 2006 by Jonathan G. Katz All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Katz, Jonathan Glustrom. Murder in Marrakesh : Emile Mauchamp and the French colonial adventure / Jonathan G. Katz. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34815-9 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-253-34815-3 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Mauchamp, Emile, 1870–1907—Death and burial. 2. Physicians—France. 3. French—Morocco. I. Title. DT324.92.M385K37 2006 964'.04092—dc22 [B] 2006015062 1 2 3 4 5 12 11 10 09 08 07 For Tanya and my children Madeleine, Suzanne, Julian, and Sophie We can study files for decades, but every so often we are tempted to throw up our hands and declare that history is merely another literary genre: the past is autobiographical fiction pretending to be a parliamentary report. Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot ...