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Pierre Jean Daniel André was a French military officer who studied Oriental languages in Paris before serving with the French Colonial Infantry in a number of parts of the French Empire, including Algeria and Morocco, and at posts along the African and Arabian coasts of the Indian Ocean. In 1919‒20 André was governor of the sanjak (administrative district) of Djebel-i-Bereket in Cilicia, a region of southeastern Turkey that had been placed under French administration following the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. Based on his experiences ...