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Paul Durand-Lapie, Le comte d'Escayrac de Lauture, Voyageur et explorateur français, commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur, Paris : Champion, 1899, 180 p. Victor-Adolphe Malte-Brun, « Notice sur les voyages et les travaux de M. le Comte d'Escayrac de Lauture » in Bulletin de la Société de géographie , janvier à juin 1869, 5e série, t.XVII ...
Paul-Émile Victor (born Paul Eugène Victor; 28 June 1907 – 7 March 1995) [1] was a French ethnologist and explorer.. Victor was born in Geneva, Switzerland to French Jewish parents of Bohemian and Polish descent.
The Society of Les Voyageurs is a student organization at the University of Michigan.It is one of the oldest university outing clubs in the United States. [1] Founded in 1907, the Society of Les Voyageurs is the second oldest student organization on the University of Michigan campus. [2]
The terms voyageur, explorateur, and coureur des bois have had broad and overlapping uses, but their meanings in the context of the fur trade business were more distinct. . Voyageurs were canoe transportation workers in organized, licensed long-distance transportation of furs and trade goods in the interior of the contine
John Cunningham was born in Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan, on 16 February 1817, as the eldest son of Patrick Cunningham, a postmaster from Sligo, Ireland, who had become a voyageur at Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), and of Nancy Anne Bruce, a native of Luisianna. [1] He was only baptized on 27 August 1826, at the age of 9. [2]
Paul Soleillet (29 April 1842 – 10 September 1886) was a French explorer in West Africa and Ethiopia. He was a strong believer in opening up Africa to trade through peaceful means, and thus bringing the benefits of French civilization to the natives while gaining commercial profits for France.
Henry was educated in Ireland at Clongowes Wood College. [3] Henry Russell undertook his first distant voyage at the age of 23, to North America. In 1858 he climbed Pic de Néouvielle in the Néouvielle massif from Barèges, as well as the Ardiden, and made three ascents of Monte Perdido. In 1859 he made his second voyage, which lasted three years.
Engraving from Voyage de François Bernier, Paul Maret, 1710.. François Bernier (25 September 1620 – 22 September 1688) was a French physician and traveller. He was born in Joué-Etiau in Anjou.