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Armand Reclus (13 March 1843 – 9 January 1927) was a French naval engineer and geographer, known for his involvement in the development of the Panama Canal. He graduated top of his class in the Imperial Naval College in 1862, and went on to take part in campaigns in the Pacific and in French colonial actions in Indochina.
Like his brothers, Élisée, Élie, Onésime, and Paul, Armand was a geographer and took part in the 1876–1878 exploration of the Darien with Ferdinand de Lesseps. The route for the Panama Canal that he proposed was adopted by the International Geography Congress in 1879, and he directed the drilling site as the project began. However, he resigned in 1882 after realising the scale of the challenge.
After leaving the French navy, he owned vineyards in France and Tunisia where he spent his time. He returned to France in 1911, and died in 1927 - the last of the Reclus brothers.
Biography
Elie Armand Ebenhezer Reclus was born at Orthez on March 13th, 1843 - the fifth of the Reclus brothers. His parents were Jacques Reclus and Marguerite Zéline Trigant.
Like his brothers, he studied at the Protestant college of Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, where his father had taught. He was then sent to Neuqied in Germany as part of the Protestant brotherhood (the Morovian Brothers). There he learned English, German, Spanish, Swedish, and Dutch.
Reclus returned to France in 1857, aged sixteen, and joined the imperial naval school. He was granted a scholarship by the municipal council of Orthez. At the college, he befriended Lucien Napoléon Bonaparte-Wyse..
Publications
- Le Canal interocéanique et les explorations dans l’Isthme américain, Bulletin de la Société de géographie commerciale de Paris, v. 1, 1879.
- Le canal interocéanique, 1879, avec Lucien Napoléon Bonaparte-Wyse.
- Explorations aux isthmes de Panama et de Darien, Le Tour du monde, vol. 39, nos 991-1016 du 1er semestre 1880 et vol. 40, nos 1017-1042 du 2e semestre 1880
- Panama et Darien, Voyages d’exploration (1876-1878), Paris, Hachette, 1881.
- Panama et Darien, Voyages d’exploration (1876-1878), Eaux-Bonnes, Pédelahore-Transhumance, texte complet, et orthographe entièrement révisée ISBN 9791093533346.
References
- Archives Départementales des Pyrénées Atlantiques (Commune d'Orthez Acte No. 34 du 14 mars 1843)
- Brun & Ferretti 2015, p. 20.
- https://www.huguenots.fr/2010/09/la-famille-reclus/
- =http://www.cepb.eu/Accueil/Articles/BULL35_Fauconnier.pdf
- Brun & Ferretti 2015, p. 29.
- https://www.saintefoylagrandehistoire.com/dossiers/dossier.php?val=219_zeline+trigant+inoubliable+-+jacques+reclus+intransigeant
- https://www.sudouest.fr/gironde/sainte-foy-la-grande/armand-reclus-et-panama-7884053.php
- Fac-similé en français
Sources
- Brun, Christophe; Ferretti, Federico (April 2015). Elisée Reclus, une chronologie familiale : sa vie, ses voyages, ses écrits, ses ascendants, ses collatéraux, les descendants, leurs écrits, sa postérité, 1796–2015 (in French) (2nd ed.).