Died in a concentration camp in Dachau, impoverished and demonized by his own country, the memory of Pierre Aimable Edouard Planque (1893-1945) is less glorious than that of Léon Paul Alfred Dussac (1876-1938). The common point of these two French people, they defended the cause for Malagasy freedom in the face of the French occupation. The difference, apart from being from two opposite social circles: peasantry and aristocracy, Planque was for a total freedom of the country. While Dussac, by approaching the Malagasy leaders of the political struggle for independence where he could exercise his influence, sought the departmentalization of Madagascar to France. His first contacts with Madagascar were rather human. Faced with workers’ conditions in ports, images of inequalities and the harshness of the peasant conditions inflicted on his family. His increasingly committed actions have earned him losing his job, he then headed for the capital. Of a ” looser They became two with Vittori. The duo will carry out actions with the Malagasy to chase the colonizing France. His first arrest by the administration of the time followed the demonstration of May 29, 1929, with his component Vittori. After going back and forth in prison, a sentence forever prohibits him from the Malagasy soil. In France, the treatment inflicted by local justice is final. He vaded from jelly jelly, towards the end of the Second World War, his journey ends in Dachau under the reign of Vichy. Death was waiting for him there. Released from this weight, Léon Paul Alfred Dussac had all the latitude to influence Jean Ralaimongo and Company. Although he also risks prison terms and physical abuse, the social position of the family in France allowed him to take all the risks. This earned him to be treated as a spy with his morality as an idealistic man. In the pay of a France which wanted to keep its influence internally at the time of the major decisions of the pro-independence parties. Besides, he was listened to by the leaders. Through the Memoirs and Research on Colonization in Madagascar, its status as “ancestor” of cooperants seems to stick to his memory. The “cooperant” is the personification of post-independence French neocolonialism. To maintain its presence on newly free land, France assigned by diplomatic forcing under the seal of agents’ cooperation agreements to serve as a relay. Thus, constantly monitor the political orientations of the leaders. A current practice in French -speaking Africa after “decolonization”, especially in the time of de Gaulle, the version “Space »D’Hitler and his lieutenant Jacques Foccart. Normal if in 1972, students demanded, among other things, the end of cooperation agreements. In a way, there were two Léon Paul Alfred Dussac, the one who wanted Madagascar to finish French department. And the other, which after years of detention in prison, terrible financial attacks against him, the death of his wife … ended up admitting that the big island deserved its total independence and without condition. He died in Paris in the street.
Collected by Maminirina Rado
