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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..

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