About Guillaume Lejean
Lived 1824 – 1871 (aged 47). Guillaume Lejean was a French explorer and geographer.
Ethnographic map of European Turkey and its vassal states. Guillaume Lejean, 1861.
Guillaume Lejean (1 February, 1828 in Plouégat-Guérand – 2 February, 1871 in Plouégat-Guérand) was a Breton of French citizenship who was an explorer and ethnographer.
Works Ethnographie de la Turquie d'Europe (French for "Ethnography of Turkey of Europe."). Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1861 Voyage aux deux Nils (French for "Travel to the two Niles"). Paris, 1865–68 Théodore II, le nouvel empire d'Abyssinie et les intérèts francais (French for "Theodore II, the new empire of Abyssinia and the French interests"). Paris, 1865
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Who was Guillaume Lejean?
French explorer
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Guillaume Lejean was born on 1 February 1824 in Plouégat-Guérand.
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Guillaume Lejean died on 2 February 1871 in Plouégat-Guérand.
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Guillaume Lejean was an explorer and geographer.
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Guillaume Lejean was French.
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