Charles-Édouard Hocquard ( Nancy 1853 -

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s 1911) was a French medical doctor and explorer, famous for being a photographer.

Biography

Born in Nancy, he studied military medicine in

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Hospital. He volunteered for the French expedition in

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(now North of

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) in 1883 and explored

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, from the Chinese frontiers to the

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. His photographs were displayed at the

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in 1885 where they were awarded by a Gold Medal. He published ''Trente mois au Tonkin'' (Thirty Months in Tonkin) in ''Le Tour du Monde'' (1889 and 1891) and ''Une campagne au Tonkin'' in 1892. Hocquard travelled to

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and

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in 1894, and became director of the military health service of the French expeditionary troops in Madagascar. He published in 1896 ''L'Expédition de Madagascar, journal de campagne''. He died in Lyons in 1911 from

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Photographs

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Sources

* Antoine Lefébure (dir.), ''Explorateurs photographes. Territoires inconnus. 1850-1930'', La Découverte, 2003 (pp. 40–42) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hocquard, Charles Edouard French explorers People of French Indochina 1853 births 1911 deaths French photographers