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Law/Patents - Human Resources / type of temporary contract | | French term or phrase: alais | Comes from the report of a prospecting expedition in French West Africa in the 1940s.
"Le 6 février 1945 enfin débarquait à Kouroussa un jeune ingénieur adjoint des mines contractuel (alais), M. Berthoumieux, venu récemment de France au titre de la relève."
A typing error is a distinct possibility, but I'm having an inspiration failure as to what it could be. |
| | | Alès (In French) | Explanation:
probably related to a Mining Université or School in Alès which apparently was also (miss)pelled 'Alais)
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Le projet de création, à Alais, d'une "École de maîtres-ouvriers-mineurs ...
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