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HENRI DUVEYRIER (184o-1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 738 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRI See also:DUVEYRIER (184o-1892)  , See also:French explorer of the See also:Sahara, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 28th of See also:February 184o . His youth was spent partly in See also:London, where he met Heinrich See also:Barth, then preparing the narrative of his travels in the western See also:Sudan . At the See also:age of nineteen See also:Duveyrier, who had already learnt Arabic, began a See also:journey in the See also:northern parts of the Sahara which lasted nearly three years . On returning to See also:France he received, in 1863, the See also:gold See also:medal of the Paris See also:Geographical Society, and in 1864 published Exploration du Sahara: See also:les Touareg du See also:nord . In the See also:war of 187o he was taken prisoner by the Germans . Subsequently he made several other journeys in the Sahara, adding considerably to the knowledge of the regions immediately See also:south of the See also:Atlas, from the eastern confines of See also:Morocco to See also:Tunisia . He also examined the Algerian and Tunisian chats and explored the interior of western See also:Tripoli . Duveyrier devoted See also:special See also:attention to the customs and speech of the See also:Tuareg, with whom he lived for months at a See also:time, and to the organization of the See also:Senussi . In 1881 he published La Tunisie, and in 1884 La Confrerie musselmane de Sidi Mohammed See also:Ben See also:Ali-Es-Senossi et son domaine geographique . He died at Sevres on the 25th of See also:April 1892 .

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