Henry de Monfreid
French writer and adventurer (1879-1974) · France · On the map · Writers · Died at 95
Henry de Monfreid was a French adventurer, a prolific writer, sailor, a smuggler, a shipowner, a hashish trader, and perhaps a spy. Born in Leucate, Aude, France, he was the son of artist painter Georges-Daniel de Monfreid and knew Paul Gauguin as a child.
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Henry de Monfreid at his Paris home published in The New York Times, 1930s
Monfreid's Altair, cutting through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait waters on a fair monsoon day, might have looked like this dhow
A small dhow now used for beach-promenade. Monfreid wrote that he was glad once to have Muslim ladies en route for the hajj crouching on his deck, on the Red Sea between Obock and Jeddah: the officers of the Aden Royal Navy cutter did not dare to offend against haram, and gave up stopping and examining his boat, which was loaded with contraband.
