Émile Félix Gautier

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Émile Félix Gautier or Gauthier (born 1864 in Clermont-Ferrand; died 1940 in Portivy, Saint-Pierre-de-Quiberon) was a French geographer.

He focused on northern Africa, especially Algiers, Madagascar, the Sahara desert, and the territories of French Africa.

[edit] Works

  • Madagascar (1902)
  • Le Sahara (1923;: translated as Sahara, the Great Desert, 1935)
  • Un Siècle de colonisation (1930)
  • L'Afrique blanche (1939)
  • Missions au Sahara (with Raymond Chudeau)

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