Adèle Hommaire de Hell
French explorer and writer (1819-1883) · France · On the map · Writers · Lived 1810 to 1883 · aged 73
Jeanne Louise Adélaïde Hommaire de Hell née Hériot (1819-1883) was a French explorer and writer.
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From the mid-1830s, together with her husband, the geographer and engineer Xavier Hommaire de Hell, she undertook exploratory journeys to the Ottoman Empire, Moldavia, New Russia, the Caspian steppes, the Caucasus and Crimea. She is remembered above all for compiling detailed records of these journeys which were published from 1846 to 1868. She also documented her journey to Martinique where she visited her son in 1862.
