Xavier Marmier was a French writer born in Pontarlier, in Doubs. He had a passion for travelling, and this he combined throughout his life with the production of literature.
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Xavier Marmier was a French writer born in Pontarlier, in Doubs. He had a passion for travelling, and this he combined throughout his life with the production of literature. After journeying in Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands, he was attached in 1835 to the Arctic expedition of the Recherche; and after a couple of years at Rennes as professor of foreign literature, he visited (1842) Russia, (1845) Syria, (1846) Algeria, (1848-1849) North America and South America, and numerous volumes from his pen were the result.
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