Émile Félix Gautier
Encyclopedia
Émile-Félix Gautier or Gauthier (1864 in Clermont-Ferrand
– 1940 in Portivy, Saint-Pierre-de-Quiberon) was a French geographer
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He focused on northern Africa
, especially Algiers
, Madagascar
, the Sahara
desert, and the territories of French Africa.
Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census. It is the prefecture of the Puy-de-Dôme department...
– 1940 in Portivy, Saint-Pierre-de-Quiberon) was a French geographer
Geographer
A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
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He focused on northern Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, especially Algiers
Algiers
' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000...
, Madagascar
Madagascar
The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
, the Sahara
Sahara
The Sahara is the world's second largest desert, after Antarctica. At over , it covers most of Northern Africa, making it almost as large as Europe or the United States. The Sahara stretches from the Red Sea, including parts of the Mediterranean coasts, to the outskirts of the Atlantic Ocean...
desert, and the territories of French Africa.
Works
- Madagascar (1902)
- Le Sahara (1923;: translated as Sahara, the Great Desert, 1935)
- Un Siècle de colonisation (1930)
- L'Afrique blanche (1939)
- Missions au Sahara (with Raymond Chudeau)
External links
- Bibliography (PDF, in FrenchFrench languageFrench is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
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