Jean-Baptiste Raffenel

Anne-Jean-Baptist Raffenel (1809-1858) was a Explorateur French. Born with Versailles, he visited 1826 with 1842 the the Antilles, the Brésil, the the United States, Madagascar, the island Bourbon, the Senegal. It was charged in 1843 to explore the bordering Falémé and countries, and published in its return a Voyage in Western Africa (1846).

He undertook shortly after to cross the Africa in all his width, but was taken and stripped on the limits of the Ségou, and could not go further. It benefitted from its captivity to write a Voyage in the country of the Negros , which appeared have 1856.

It was named in 1855 governor of French establishments of Madagascar.

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