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XAVIER MARMIER (1809–1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 744 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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XAVIER MARMIER (1809–1892)  , French author, was born at
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Pontarlier, in
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Doubs, on the 24th of
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June 1809 . He had a passion for travelling, and this he combined throughout his
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life with the production of literature . After journeying in Switzer-
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land, Belgium and Holland, he was attached in 1835 to the Arctic expedition of the " Recherche "; and after a couple of years at
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Rennes as professor of
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foreign literature, he visited (1842) Russia, (1845)
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Syria, (1846) Algeria, (1848–1849) North and South
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America, and numerous volumes from his pen were the result . In 187o he was elected to the Academy, and he was for many years prominently identified with the Sainte-Genevieve library . He did much to encourage the study of Scandinavian literature in France,
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publishing
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translations of Holberg, Oehlenschlager and others . He died in Paris on the rrth of
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October 1892 .

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