Henri Brosselard-Faidherbe

Henri Brosselard-Faidherbe (1855–1893) was a French military officer and explorer.

Portrait in Casamance et Mellacorée (1892)

Biography

Henri François Brosselard was born on 3 June 1855. On 30 October 1883 he married Mathilde-Marie Faidherbe, the daughter of General Louis Faidherbe.[1] He was permitted to attach the surname of his father-in-law to his own.[2] Brosselard was a member of the first expedition of Colonel Paul Flatters to explore a possible route for a Trans-Saharan railway.[3] Later he wrote a book on this and the second expedition, which ended in disaster.[4] He died on 19 August 1893 in Coutances, Manche at the age of 38.[5]

Works
  • Les deux missions du Colonel Flatters en Afrique : récit historique et critique par un membre de la première mission, Paris, Dreyfous, 1884
  • Rapport sur la situation dans la vallée du Sénégal en 1886 : insurrection de Mahmadou-Lamine, 1888
  • La Guinée portugaise et les possessions françaises voisines, Lille, 1889, 116 p.
  • Les deux missions Flatters au pays des Touareg Azdjer et Hoggar, Paris, Jouvet, 1889, 304 p.
  • Rivières du Sud, Paris, Sous-secrétariat d'État des colonies, Imprimerie des Journaux officiels, 1891
  • Casamance et Mellacorée. Pénétration au Soudan, Paris, Librairie illustrée, 1892, 106 p. (original text )
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See also

Notes
  1. D'Heylli, G., ed. (1883), "Petite Gazette", Gazette Anecdotique, Littéraire, Artistique et Bibliographiques (in French), Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 2 (21, 15 November): 280
  2. Bonnefon, Jean de (1909). La noblesse de France et les anoblis de la république : liste compléte des familles pourvues de noble parure par le Conseil d'État de 1870 à 1906 (in French). Paris: L. Michaud. p. 179.
  3. Napoleon Ney (1891), "The Proposed Trans-Saharian Railway", Scribner's Magazine, C. Scribner's sons: 634
  4. Brosselard, Henri (1889), Les deux missions Flatters au pays des Touareg Azdjer et Hoggar, Jouvet
  5. "Henri Brosselard-Faidherbe (1855-1893)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 17 January 2014.

Further reading
  • Broc, Numa, ed. (1988). Dictionnaire illustré des explorateurs et grands voyageurs français du XIXe siècle. Volume 4 (in French). Paris: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. p. 58. ISBN 2-7355-0157-4.
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