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FLATTERS Paul (1832-1881) Officier et explorateur, massacré par les Touare
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FLATTERS Paul (1832-1881) Officier et explorateur, massacré par les Touareg lors d'une mission au Sahara
+ L.A.S. "Flatters captain at the 3rd Zouaves head of the Arab office of Tebessa (province of Constantine)", Tebessa 10 January 1862, to geologist Léonce Élie de Beaumont, of the Institute| 6 pages in-fol. (slight browning at a fold of the 1st sheet).
Remarkable document proposing an expedition to Central Africa.
"For a long time I have wanted to visit Central Africa: this trip seems to me doubly useful, from the scientific point of view, and from the point of view of the practical information that France, mistress of Algeria, can draw from it, for the future of its trade and civilizing relations. Without mentioning the special attraction of an adventurous expedition, nothing seems to me more interesting than to visit the remote peoples, to learn about their customs, their habits, the resources of their country, to prepare the way for more sustained relations between them and the policed nations, to co-operate to the best of my ability with the commercial movement which we have a right to see established one day between us and the rich countries of the Sudan"...
It would therefore be a question of travelling through places that are known only by hearsay, of acquiring geographical, geological and demographic notions... However, as one must go through the oases of the Touat, in order to reach Timbuktu or any other point in Sudan, and then reach Senegal, and as this road does not yet seem to be passable by Europeans (he quotes Dr Barth, Caillé, Major Laing), he proposes to give himself the appearance of a Muslim travelling through the desert on business| this supposes leaving without official support, and to "make himself humble and inoffensive"... Flatters explains the particular conditions under which he wishes to attempt this undertaking: maintaining his rank, preparing for five or six months for a departure at the end of the year, financial support to the tune of 10,000 francs. Moreover, he is ready to give up his salary for the duration of
+ L.A.S. "Flatters captain at the 3rd Zouaves head of the Arab office of Tebessa (province of Constantine)", Tebessa 10 January 1862, to geologist Léonce Élie de Beaumont, of the Institute| 6 pages in-fol. (slight browning at a fold of the 1st sheet).
Remarkable document proposing an expedition to Central Africa.
"For a long time I have wanted to visit Central Africa: this trip seems to me doubly useful, from the scientific point of view, and from the point of view of the practical information that France, mistress of Algeria, can draw from it, for the future of its trade and civilizing relations. Without mentioning the special attraction of an adventurous expedition, nothing seems to me more interesting than to visit the remote peoples, to learn about their customs, their habits, the resources of their country, to prepare the way for more sustained relations between them and the policed nations, to co-operate to the best of my ability with the commercial movement which we have a right to see established one day between us and the rich countries of the Sudan"...
It would therefore be a question of travelling through places that are known only by hearsay, of acquiring geographical, geological and demographic notions... However, as one must go through the oases of the Touat, in order to reach Timbuktu or any other point in Sudan, and then reach Senegal, and as this road does not yet seem to be passable by Europeans (he quotes Dr Barth, Caillé, Major Laing), he proposes to give himself the appearance of a Muslim travelling through the desert on business| this supposes leaving without official support, and to "make himself humble and inoffensive"... Flatters explains the particular conditions under which he wishes to attempt this undertaking: maintaining his rank, preparing for five or six months for a departure at the end of the year, financial support to the tune of 10,000 francs. Moreover, he is ready to give up his salary for the duration of