Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca)
Lycée Lyautey is a French institution of secondary education located in Casablanca, Morocco. It is composed of a collège and a lycée, and belongs to the Académie de Bordeaux, an educational administrative district in France. The school was named after Marshal Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey who was the first French Resident General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925, at the beginning of the French protectorate in Morocco.
The Ibn Toumart Preparatory Secondary School (الثانوية التأهيلية ابن تومرت), formerly the Petit Lycée.
Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey was a French Army general and colonial administrator. After serving in Indochina and Madagascar, he became the first French Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925. Early in 1917 he served briefly as Minister of War. From 1921 he was a Marshal of France. He was dubbed the French empire builder, and in 1931 made the cover of Time. Lyautey was also the first one to use the term "hearts and minds" as part of his strategy to counter the Black Flags rebellion during the Tonkin campaign in 1885.
Marshal Lyautey, May 1927
General Lyautey reaches Marrakesh, Le Petit Journal, October 1912
Portrait by Philip de László, 1929
The sarcophagus of Marshal Lyautey at Les Invalides, Paris