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Jean Victor Louis Joseph Chalvet (15 June 1893 – 28 July 1975) was a French colonial official. Born in Tours, he studied at the École supérieure de commerce de Lille before joining the colonial service. His first overseas posting was to Mauritania in 1921. Afterwards he returned to France, obtaining a diploma from the École coloniale in Paris in 1927. In October 1946 he was appointed governor of Ubangi-Shari. In this last capacity, he did not get along with the anti-colonial activist Barthélemy Boganda. He left office in April 1948. After a long retirement, Chalvet died at Vincennes in 1975.