Paul Flatters
French explorer (1832-1881) · France · On the map · Historical Figures · Died at 48
Paul Flatters was a French soldier who spent a long period as a military administrator in Algeria. He is known as leader of the Flatters expedition, an ill-fated attempt to explore the route of a proposed Trans-Saharan railway from Algeria to the Sudan.
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Bust of Turenne by Jean-Jacques Flatters c. 1834
Part of the Central Sahara showing part of the route of the first mission from the draft Ministry of Public Works map and the itinerary of H. Brosselard, member of the 1st expedition
The Flatter expedition crosses a marsh. Chocolats Lombart trading card c. 1900About this person
Almost all members of the expedition were massacred by hostile Tuaregs. The survivors resorted to eating grass and to cannibalism on the long retreat through the desert. After a brief outburst of public indignation the fiasco was forgotten.
