Salima Machamba
| Salima Machamba | |
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French colonialism | |
| Born | 1 November 1874 Fomboni, Mohéli |
| Died | 7 August 1964 (aged 89) Pesmes, Haute-Saône, France |
| Burial | 10 August 1964 L'église Saint-Hilaire, Pesmes |
| Consort | Camille Paule (1867–1946) |
| Issue | |
| Dynasty | Merina |
| Father | Emile Fleuriot de Langle |
| Mother | Jumbe Fatima bint Abderremane, Sultan of Mohéli (1836/37–1878) |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Salima Machamba (1 November 1874, Fomboni – 7 August 1964, Pesmes) was sultan of Mohéli (Mwali) in 1888–1909. Her official paternal name was Salima Machamba bint Saidi Hamadi Makadara. She was a relative of Ranavalona I, Queen of Madagascar.
Life
Salima Machamba was born on 1 November 1874 in Fomboni, to Jumbe Fatima bint Abderremane, Queen (Sultan) of Mohéli (Mwali) and Emile Fleuriot de Langle (1837–1881), a great-grandson of Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle.[1][2] She was born out of wedlock, but officially bore the name of her mother's husband and was recognised as Salima Machamba bint Saidi Hamadi Makadara.[3]
She was chosen as
She was deported with her family to France. She gave birth to three children. The French government provided her with a yearly allowance of 3,000 gold Francs. She lived as a simple farmer in Haute-Saône, and died in Pesmes on 7 August 1964. She was buried at L'église Saint-Hilaire, Pesmes on 10 August 1964.[4] Her granddaughter Anne Etter represents the royal family of Mohéli in Comoros as the president of Association Développement des Iles Comores.[5]
- Their grave with her husband in Pesmes
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Children
From her marriage to Camille Paule (1 March 1867, Pesmes – 22 September 1946, Champagney, Jura), three children:
- Henriette Camille Ursule Louise Paule (15 July 1902, Cléry, Côte-d'Or − 4 April 1989, Dijon), Princess of Mohéli, she has a daughter:
- Christiane
- Louis Camille Paule (1 September 1907, Cléry, Côte-d'Or − 8 April 1983, Dole, Jura), Prince of Mohéli, he has a daughter:
- Anne Ursule Etter (born 1941), President of Association Développement des Iles Comores, wife of Jean–François Etter
- Prince Camille Fernand Paule (16 June 1917, Cléry, Côte-d'Or − 1 April 2007, Dijon), Prince of Mohéli
Notes
- ^ (in French) "Salima Machamba, Reine de Moheli et agricultrice à Cléry", Archives départementales de la Côte d'Or, 2016.
- ^ (in French) Anne Etter, « À Salima de Mohéli, dernière reine comorienne, la fidélité d’une petite-fille », Éditions Komedit, 2012.
- ^ See Nivois (1995).
- ^ See Nivois (1995).
- ^ * La France en Union des Comores Ambassade de France à Moroni/Le portrait de la femme du mois (Access date: 27 October 2014)
Bibliography
- Nivois, Julienne: A Pesmes, en Franche-Comté..., Une Reine oubliée par l'Histoire, Éditions Dominique Guéniot, Paris, 1995.
External links
- Comores/Ursule Salima Machamba 1ère, Dernière reine de Mohéli (Access date: 27 October 2014)
- Habari Za Komori/Ursule Salima Machamba 1ère, Dernière reine de Mohéli (Access date: 27 October 2014)
- Rulers/Salima Machamba (Access date: 27 October 2011)
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