Who was able to penetrate 300 meters deep into a cave in the Aveyron...
The portrait of the painter Jean-Marie Fage by his son, documentarian...
30 years after the Gaisseau expedition which signed the first crossing...
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Who was able to penetrate 300 meters deep into a cave in the Aveyron Gorge to build structures composed of more than 400 broken stalagmites? At what time? And above all, why? Since the discovery of the cave in 1990, this amazing architecture has never revealed its secrets.
Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1831-1903) was the first explorer of the interior of Gabon (from 1855 to 1859). Self-taught, he was at the same time a naturalist, ethnologist, linguist, geographer... We owe him the unique description of many ethnic groups of the future Gabon well before the colonization, but he was famous for having been the first hunter of the...