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Explorer and devout Catholic. He dedicated himself to mapping Ethiopia. Inventor of expeditious geodesy, an extremely precise surveying method which he put into practice in Ethiopia. Specialist in the Basque language.
Diplomat, writer, geographer and historian.
English field marshal, commanding English troops in America, he conquered Quebec, Montreal, Louisbourg and Canada; commander-in-chief of the British armed forces from 1778 until his death.
Littérateur et voyageur. Atteint de cécité, il continue pourtant à produire des pièces de théâtre.
Quatrième fils de Louis-Philippe, il se distingue en Algérie par la prise de la Smala d’Abd-el-Kader. Académicien (1871).
Geographer and historian of geography, member of the Academy of Inscriptions, founder of the Ethnographic Society.
Linguist and colonial administrator, specialist in Khmer culture, first director of the Colonial School.
An Italian geographer, correspondent of the Institute, director of the geography office in Florence, he was in charge of the geographical division of the departments comprising Tuscany during the occupation by Napoleonic troops.
Geographer, curator of the geographical map collections at the National Library (1802), founder of the Geographical Society (1821).
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