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See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE See also:DOUVILLE (1794?-1837)
, See also:French traveller, was See also:born at Hambye, in the See also:department of See also:Manche
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Having at an See also:early See also:age inherited a See also:fortune, he decided to gratify his See also:taste for See also:foreign travel
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According to his own profession he visited See also:India, See also:Kashmir, See also:Khorasan, See also:Persia, See also:Asia See also:Minor and many parts of See also:Europe
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In 1826 he went to See also:South See also:America, and in 1827 See also:left See also:Brazil for the Portuguese possessions on the See also:west See also:coast of See also:Africa, where his presence in See also: See also:Gardner, in his Travels in the Interior of Brazil (1846), he was murdered in 1837 on the See also:banks of the Sao Francisco for charging too high for his medical assistance . Douville may well have explored See also:part of the See also:province of See also:Angola, and See also:Sir See also:Richard See also:Burton maintained that the Frenchman's descriptions of the See also:country of the Congo were See also:life-like; that his observations on the See also:anthropology, ceremonies, customs and maladies of the See also:people were remarkably accurate; and that even the native words used in his narrative were " for the most part given with unusual correctness." It has been shown, however, that the See also:chief source of Douville's See also:inspiration was a number of unpublished Portuguese See also:manuscripts to which he had See also:access . |
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