Nécrologie

Imperial ambivalences. Histories of lady travellers and the French explorer Octavie Renard-Coudreau (1867–1938)

“…However, they paid the cost of their increasing marginalization in French-speaking arenas, as the name Coudreau, very famous in the period 1886-1894 and granted the Golden Medal of the Paris Geographical Society in 1892, became then rarer and rarer in French geographical journals; his obituary in the Annales de Géographie was limited to few very cold lines (Zimmermann 1900). If Coudreau's most famous book (1893) was published by the prestigious Maison Hachette, his books covering the Brazilian period, and later those of Octavie, were printed by a less famous publisher, Lahure.…”