Marthe Emmanuel

Marthe Emmanuel (20 August 1901 – 15 May 1997) was a French geographer, historian, and biographer. Emmanuel's work focused on the history of geography, particularly on polar scientific explorers from France. She initially devoted her writings to biographies about Jean-Baptiste Charcot, describing both his contributions to science and the explorer's personality. She then published research about other explorers, including Robert Falcon Scott. Her works have been awarded several prizes. Her father was the composer Maurice Emmanuel (1862–1938). She became an engineer at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), where she organized the journal Mémoires et Documents. Her thesis included a discussion of the first polar explorer, the ancient Greek geographer Pytheas. She then recounts the various Celtic and Viking expeditions, the discovery and rediscovery of Cape Horn, and mentions lesser-known French explorers such as Jean-François Regnard in Lapland in 1861 and Pierre Louis Maupertuis in the Arctic Circle in Finland. Marcelin Guérin Prize of the French Academy in 1960, Georges Dreyfus Prize and Prize of the Naval Academy for France and Polar Exploration Her portrait appeared on a stamp with the French Southern and Antarctic Lands in 2007

Selected works Marthe Emmanuel (preface by Jean de La Varende), Charcot, Polar Navigator, Éditions des Loisirs,1943, 205 p. Marthe Emmanuel (preface by Jules Sottas), Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and "Polar Gentleman", Éditions Alsatia, 1945, p. 192 Marthe Emmanuel, Scott, the hero of the South Pole, 1946, 143 p. Marthe Emmanuel, France and Polar Exploration, Nouvelles éditions latines Doullens, 1959, 399 p. Marthe Emmanuel (preface by Paul-Émile Victor), Such Was Charcot: 1867–1936, Beauchesne, coll. "Figures of Yesterday and Today", 1986