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"signatures Bonpland session at the Museum" Saturday, May 6, 2010 at 14h

October 22, 2010 6:00 Doing justice to

Bonpland A book, an exhibition, a symposium ... This is the month of Aimé Bonpland.

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Physician, botanist, geologist, anthropologist, adventurer ... Telling the life of Aimé Bonpland is not easy, for the simple reason that he had several .

Courthès Eric, a former English teacher in high school Valin La Rochelle, the challenge to write the biography of the fictional character, went to investigate the Orinoco and Amazon in the nineteenth century with the Baron Humboldt, imprisoned by a sadistic dictator of Paraguay, who died at age 85 in Argentina. "The way trip Aimé Bonpland, explorer La Rochelle (L'Harmattan), was released last April

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"I'm interested in him because we have three things in common: we are from Charente-Maritime, we lived in Paraguay and we were married for twenty years to Argentina ! "Smiled the Oléron Eric Courthès now serving in another island, Tahiti, which was took almost a passion for fusion Aimé Bonpland. "I wrote this biography in the first. It's a little memory he could write. "

This book, one more in the amount of books published on Bonpland, is the result of four years of research in libraries and on the ground. "We found the house where he lived in Paraguay, his" gilded cage ", where he was eventually driven out, leaving his wife and children. "As a

additional injustice, Aimé Bonpland, famous across the Atlantic, is unknown in his homeland. "There is a museum in Bonpland Corrientes, Argentina. It appears in many books, and even in a movie released in Venezuela in 1996, "Free Area" of Luis Armando Roche. He is considered an idol, a friend of Bolivar and liberators of South American countries. He had a peaceful approach, unlike the English conquistadors.

Paradoxically, there is little trace of him in the Charente-Maritime. Even the street Bonpland, La Rochelle, was not named in memory of him but his brother, Michael, former mayor of Périgny, jealous to the point of disinheritance in the death of their mother and did bequeath his own herbarium! "