author
Maurice Le Glay
1868–1936
A soldier turned writer, he drew on years spent in North Africa to write vividly about Morocco and the colonial world he knew firsthand. His books and articles helped shape how many French readers imagined the region in the early twentieth century.
2 Audiobooks
Récits marocains de la plaine et des monts
by Maurice Le Glay
La mort du Rogui
by Maurice Le Glay
About the author
Born in 1868, Maurice Le Glay was a French Army officer who later became known for his writing on Morocco. He served in artillery and political roles in Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco, experiences that gave his work a strong sense of place and detail.
After leaving military service for a civil post in 1918, he devoted himself more fully to literature. He published many journal articles as well as several books, including works on Moroccan life and on the French defeat at El Herri.
Le Glay died in 1936. Though less widely read today, he remains a useful and revealing figure for readers interested in French colonial-era writing and in firsthand accounts connected to Morocco at the start of the twentieth century.