Claudius Madrolle, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French travel writer
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Place of Birth: Dieppe, Normandy, France
About Claudius Madrolle
- Claudius Madrolle (22 July 1870 – 16 June 1949) was a French explorer in Africa and Asia and editor of travel guides who specialized in the Far East.
- Publishers included Comité de l'Asie Française, Hachette and the Société d'Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales. In 1902, thanks to this young and wealthy French explorer, was published the first of a serie of travel guides to the Far East.
- From the beginning, he designed his project to match the spirit of well-known guides such as Baedeker, Joanne or Murray.
- A collection indeed, as a total of 70 guides, 11 of them in English, were published between 1902 and 1939.
- This period, during which Far East countries were slowly embracing tourism, was also a period of considerable political and social turmoil.
- For Claudius Madrolle, these changes added serious hurdles to the completion of his project.
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legal name: Gaspard-Félix Tournachon pseudonym: Nadar | ||
| Description | French photographer, caricaturist, writer and balloonist | ||
| Date of birth/death | 6 April 1820 | 20 March 1910 / 21 March 1910 | |
| Location of birth/death | Paris | former 4th arrondissement of Paris | |
| Work period | 1854–1910 | ||
| Work location | Paris | ||
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