René Malbrant

René Malbrant (8 March 1903 – 25 November 1961) was a French veterinarian and conservative politician. He served as a member of the French National Assembly between 1946 and 1958.

Born in Dangé, Vienne, Malbrant studied at École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort and Faculté de Médecine de Paris. The field research for his thesis was carried out in Morocco during the Rif War. In 1927 he was sent to Chad to serve as Head of Livestock (a post he would hold for eleven years). In the same year Malbrant organized the arrival of Bororo (Fulbe) herders to Ubangui. Malbrant was in-charge of the Fort Lamy veterinary laboratory (set up in the late 1930s), at which he experimented with vaccines against cattle plague. In 1938 he shifted to Brazzaville, to serve as Head of Livestock for French Equatorial Africa. During these years he produced more than fifty scientific reports on the African fauna.

During World War II, Malbrant was an officer in the Free French Forces. He was appointed as a member of the Provisional Consultative Assembly (based in Algiers, later in Paris), representing the 'Resistance Overseas' and as a delegate of 'Rally of the Colonies' and the Combat movement. His seat in the Assembly was validated on May 19, 1944.

Malbrant was represented in all legislatures of the French Fourth Republic, representing the first electoral college (i.e. French citizens) of French Equatorial Africa. In 1945 Malbrant took part in the founding of the Chadian Democratic Union (UDT), the Chadian branch of the Gaullist Rally of the People of France.

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