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{{Short description|Belgian diplomat and historian}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Jules Marchal
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| nationality = Belgian
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| alma_mater =[[Catholic University of Louvain]]
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| main_interests = [[Belgian colonial empire|Belgian colonial history]]
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'''Jules Marchal''' (1924 - 21 June 2003) was a Belgian diplomat and historian, who wrote extensively on the history of colonial exploitation in the Belgian Congo. Originally writing in [[Dutch language|Dutch]], under the pseudonym '''A. M. Delathuy''', he later published studies in [[French language|French]] under his own name.<ref name="Lévai2006">{{cite book|author=Guy Vanthemsche|editor=Csaba Lévai|title=Europe and the world in European historiography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s4gWAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=18 April 2013|year=2006|publisher=PLUS-Pisa University Press|isbn=978-88-8492-403-2|page=103|chapter=The historiography of Belgian colonialism in the Congo}}</ref> [[Adam Hochschild]], in his bestselling ''[[King Leopold's Ghost]]'', praised Marchal's work as "the best scholarly overview by far, encyclopedic in scope".<ref name="Nzongola-Ntalaja2002">{{cite book |author=Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
In the mid-1970s, Marchal first read that it was believed in the Anglo-Saxon world that under Leopold II half of the native population had perished, approximately ten million people<ref>[http://www.larevuetoudi.org/fr/story/poursuite-du-travail-forc%C3%A9-apr%C3%A8s-l%C3%A9opold-ii Poursuite du travail forcé après Léopold II], ''Toudi'', nr. 42-43, december 2001-januari 2002</ref> He went to do archival research to debunk this, but on the contrary he came across truths about the reign of terror that were previously unknown to him. Towards the end of his career, he began to publish a steady stream of bulky studies on the subject.
Marchal, for his part, considered the work of Belgian historians on the colonial period law-abiding and respectable. They avoided tricky issues, leaving the field empty for a non-academic like himself: "Everything I write is new. My books are based on archives that have never been consulted by anyone, never used by other historians.<ref>[http://www.hbvl.be/cnt/oid185467/archief-jules-marchal-over-dwangarbeid-in-kongo Jules Marchal over dwangarbeid in Kongo], ''Het Belang van Limburg'', 23 maart 2002</ref>
==Works==
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▲* ''Forced labor in the gold and copper mines: a history of Congo under Belgian rule, 1910-1945'', Popenguine, Senegal: Per Ankh, 2003. Translated by [[Ayi Kwei Armah]] from the French ''Travail forcé pour le cuivre et pour l'or'', 1999.
▲* ''Lord Leverhulme's ghosts: colonial exploitation in the Congo'', London: Verso, 2008. Translated by [[Martin Thom]] from the French ''Travail forcé pour l'huile de palme de Lord Leverhulme''. Introduction by [[Adam Hochschild]].
==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book |last1=Spaas |first1=Lieve |editor1-last=Stroinska |editor1-first=Magda |editor2-last=Cecchetto |editor2-first=Vikki |editor3-last=Szymanski |editor3-first=Kate |title=The Unspeakable: Narratives of Trauma |date=2014 |publisher=Frankfurt am Main |location=Peter-Lang |isbn=978-3-653-98418-7 |url=https://www.peterlang.com/view/9783653984187/xhtml/chapter005.xhtml |chapter=A Trauma in Hiding: The Case of Jules Marchal}}
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