Yves-François-Marie-Aimé Urvoy (20 January 1900 – August 1944) was a French army officer and historian whose work has focused on French colonial holdings in Africa.
Urvoy was born to a family of lower-middle class French-Algerian settlers on 20 January 1900 in Orléansville, Algeria.
[1] Relocating to metropolitan France in 1906, the family settled in Paimpol.
Urvoy attended the Lycée General David d'Angers, and then École régionale des beaux-arts d'Angers, before undertaking a second art degree at the Central Academy and the St Louis school.
After the occupation of France during World War II, Urvoy collaborated with the Vichy regime.