Charles Auguste Ferdinand Tugnot de Lanoye

Ferdinand Tugnot de Lanoye (1810–1870) was a French writer.

Life

He was born in Gray, Haute-Saône, to a mother of Danish descent and a father who was a Napoleonic Captain. He studied in Avignon, where his history teacher was Hyacinthe Morel. Since Lanoye's father's Napoleonic associations made him unpopular in the Bourbon Restoration, Lanoye initially found it hard to start a public career. A volume of poetry, ''Songs and Dreams'' (1838) led to a friendship with

Pierre-Jean de Béranger Pierre-Jean de Béranger (19 August 178016 July 1857) was a prolific French poet and chansonnier ( songwriter), who enjoyed great popularity and influence in France during his lifetime, but faded into obscurity in the decades following his deat ...

Works

* (with A. Hervé) ''Voyages dans les glaces du Pôle arctique à la recherche du passage Nord-ouest: extraits des relations de

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, Edward Parry,

John Franklin Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. After serving in wars against Napoleonic France and the United States, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through t ...

, Beechey,

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, Mac Clure et autres navigateurs célèbres'', 1854 * ''L'Inde contemporaine'', 1855. * ''Le Niger et les explorations de l'Afrique centrale: depuis Mungo-Park jusqu'au Docteur Barth'', 1858. * ''La mer Polaire : voyage de l'Érèbe et de la Terreur et expéditions à la recherche de Franklin'', 1864 * ''La Sibérie d'après les voyageurs les plus récents'', 1865 * ''Ramses le Grand, ou l'Egypte il y a trois mille trois cents ans'', 1866. Translated as ''Ramses the Great, or, the Egypt of 3300 Years Ago'', 1869. * (ed.) ''Voyage dans les royaumes de Siam, de Cambodge, de Laos et autres parties centrales de l'Indo-Chine'' by

Henri Mouhot Alexandre Henri Mouhot (May 15, 1826 — November 10, 1861) was a French naturalist and explorer of the mid-19th century. He was born in Montbéliard, Doubs, France, near the Swiss border, but spent his childhood in Russia and, possibly, parts ...

, 1868. * ''The sublime in nature: compiled from the descriptions of travellers and celebrated writers'', 1870 * ''L'homme sauvage'', 1873. * ''La mer polaire voyage de l'Erèbe et de la Terreure et expéditions à la recherche de Franklin'', 1878.

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* 1810 births 1870 deaths French travel writers French male non-fiction writers {{France-nonfiction-writer-stub