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Auguste Brougnes
b. 1812
A French doctor and landowner from the Hautes-Pyrénées, he wrote passionately about agricultural colonization in Argentina as a way to relieve rural poverty in Europe. His books sit at the crossroads of migration history, social reform, and 19th-century visions of the New World.
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About the author
Auguste Brougnes was a 19th-century French author identified by the Bibliothèque nationale de France as an author born in 1812 in Caixon, in the Hautes-Pyrénées. His surviving books present him as a doctor, and one of them also describes him as a landowner and farmer based near Vic-Bigorre.
He is best known for works on emigration and agricultural colonization in Argentina, including Bases pour servir aux entreprises de colonisation dans les territoires nationaux de la République Argentine (1882). Contemporary catalog records and later historical studies connect him with plans for settling European farming families in Argentina, especially in Corrientes, and describe him as an early advocate of agricultural colonization in the Río de la Plata region.
Some modern sources give a more precise birth date of October 12, 1810, but major library authority records list 1812, so his exact birth year appears uncertain. I could not confirm a reliable public portrait from the sources I found, so no profile image is included.