Louis Rousselet
Crushing by Elephant, an execution depicted in Rousselet's "Le Tour du Monde", 1868.
Louis-Théophile Marie Rousselet 1845-1929) was a French writer, a photographer and pioneer of the darkroom, and traveller. His photographic work now commands high prices.[1]
He was in India from 1864 to 1870[2] He spent much time in central India (Alwar, Baroda, Bhopal, Gwalior, Udaipur) and Rajasthan). His photograph collection and travel book L'Inde des Rajahs: Voyage Dans l'Inde Centrale (1875)[3] documented court life. Other photographs were of monuments and temples.[4]
Works
- L'Inde des Rajas (1875)
+ " The Son of the Constable of France or the Adventures of Jean de Bourbon" (1882)
- Nouveau dictionnaire de géographie universelle, with Vivien de Saint-Martin
- Au vieux pays de France (1906)
References
- L'Inde: photographies de Louis Rousselet 1865 - 1868. Musée Goupil - Bordeaux, Bordeaux. (1992)
Notes
- ↑ ,
- ↑ The Tribune - Windows - Slice of history
- ↑ In English, India and Its Native Princes, 1876, revised by Buckle.
- ↑ , in French.
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