biography
| name: |
Faidherbe, Louis Léon César
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pronunciation:
[faydairb]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1818–89)
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| biography:
| French soldier and scholar, born in Lille, N France. Appointed Governor of Senegal in 1854, he greatly extended the frontiers of his province (1858–61). In the Franco-Prussian War, commanding the Army of the North, he was defeated near St Quentin in 1871. After the peace he was dispatched by the French government to Egypt to study the monuments. He wrote on Numidian and Phoenician inscriptions (1870–4), the anthropology of Algiers and the French Sudan (1874–84), and treatises on the Fula and Berber languages (1875–7). |
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