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Élisée Reclus

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Reclus, Élisée
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Date of birth
1830-03-15
Place of birth
France
Date of death
1905-07-04
Place of death
Belgium

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Jacques Élisée Reclus (French: [ʁəkly]; 15 March 1830 – 4 July 1905) was a French geographer, writer and anarchist. He produced his 19-volume masterwork, La Nouvelle Géographie universelle, la terre et les hommes ("Universal Geography"), over a period of nearly 20 years (1875–1894). In 1892 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Paris Geographical Society for this work, despite having been banished from France because of his political activism.

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French geographer and writer.

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