See also:

• JEAN

JEAN See also:

• BAPTISTE

BAPTISTE See also:

• JEAN BAPTISTE DOUVILLE (1794?-1837)

DOUVILLE (1794?-1837)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French traveller, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Hambye, in the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

• MANCHE

Manche . Having at an See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age inherited a See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune, he decided to gratify his See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste for See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign travel . According to his own profession he visited See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, See also:

• KASHMIR, or CASHMERE

Kashmir, See also:

• KHORASAN, or KHORASSAN (i.e. " land of the sun ")

Khorasan, See also:

• PERSIA

Persia, See also:

• ASIA

Asia See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

Minor and many parts of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe . In 1826 he went to See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AMERICA

America, and in 1827 See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• BRAZIL
• BRAZIL, or BRASIL

Brazil for the Portuguese possessions on the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa, where his presence in See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1828 is proved by the mention made of him in letters of See also:

• CASTILLO

Castillo See also:

• BRANCO, or PARIMA

Branco; the See also:

• GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general of See also:

• LOANDA (Sao Paulo de Loanda)

Loanda . In May 1831 he reappeared in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, claiming to have pushed his explorations into the very See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

heart of central Africa . His See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story was readily accepted by the Societe de Geographie of See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, which hastened. to recognize his services by assigning him the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold See also:

• MEDAL (Fr. medaille, from Lat. metallum)

medal, and appointing him their secretary for the See also:

• YEAR

year 1832 . On the publication of his narrative, Voyage au See also:

• CONGO

Congo et dans l'interieur de l'Afrique equinoxiale, which occupied three volumes and was accompanied by an elaborate See also:

• ATLAS

atlas, public See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm ran high . Before the year 1832 was out, however, it was established that See also:

• DOUVILLE, JEAN BAPTISTE (1794?-1837)

Douville's Voyage was See also:

• ROMANCE

romance and not verity . He had probably been inspired by the See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of Rene Caillie's See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey to See also:

• TIMBUKTU (French spelling Tombouctou)

Timbuktu, and wished to obtain a See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share of the fame attaching to See also:

• AFRICAN

African explorers . Douville tried vainly to establish the truth of his story in Ma Defense (1832), and Trente mois de ma See also:

• VIE

vie, ou quinze mois avant et quinze mois arres mon voyage au Congo (1833) . Mlle Audrun, a See also:

• LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

lady to whom he was about to be married, committed See also:

• SUICIDE (from Lat. sui, of oneself, and cidium, from cued ere, to kill)

suicide from grief at the disgrace; and the adventurer withdrew in 1833 to Brazil, and proceeded to make explorations in the valley of the See also:

• AMAZON

Amazon . According to Dr G .

See also:

• GARDNER
• GARDNER, PERCY (1846– )

Gardner, in his Travels in the Interior of Brazil (1846), he was murdered in 1837 on the See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks of the Sao Francisco for charging too high for his medical assistance . Douville may well have explored See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• ANGOLA

Angola, and See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard See also:

• BURTON, JOHN HILL (1809–1881)
• BURTON, ROBERT (1577-1640)
• BURTON, SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM (1816–f goo)
• BURTON, SIR RICHARD FRANCIS (1821-1890)
• BURTON, WILLIAM EVANS (1804-1860)

Burton maintained that the Frenchman's descriptions of the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country of the Congo were See also:

• LIFE

life-like; that his observations on the See also:

• ANTHROPOLOGY (Gr. avOpw1ror man, and Xoyos, theory or science)

anthropology, ceremonies, customs and maladies of the See also:

• PEOPLE

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 (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief source of Douville's See also:

• INSPIRATION (Lat. inspirare, breathe upon or into)

inspiration was a number of unpublished Portuguese See also:

• MANUSCRIPTS

manuscripts to which he had See also:

• ACCESS (Lat. accessus)

access .