Jean Victor Louis Joseph Chalvet (15 June 1893 – 28 July 1975) was a French colonial official.
Afterwards he returned to France, obtaining a diploma from the École coloniale in Paris in 1927.
[1] Between 1930 and 1944 he served in a variety of roles in French West Africa: in Senegal and Soudan (1930), in the Ivory Coast (1933), in Guinea (1936), in Dakar in the French West African administration (1939) and in Mauritania again (1941).
[1] During World War II, he was appointed acting governor of Mauritania by the Vichy government in 1942.
By March 1944 he was one of only three Vichy appointees left in office after the Gaullist "rallyings".