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Edmond Plauchut
1824–1909
A French journalist, travel writer, and adventurer, he moved through 19th-century Europe and Asia with a sharp eye for place and character. He is especially remembered for his friendship with George Sand and for writings shaped by his years in Manila and beyond.
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China and the Chinese
by Edmond Plauchut
About the author
Born in 1824, Edmond Plauchut was a French journalist, writer, and traveler. Yale’s archival records describe him as a close friend of George Sand and her son Maurice Sand, and note that after a brief journalistic career in Angoulême he left France in 1850 to join French trade operations in Manila, in the Philippines.
His surviving papers show the range of his work and interests: poems, travel writing, manuscripts, and memoir material, along with documents connected to his life at Nohant, George Sand’s estate. Among the works specifically identified in Yale’s finding aid are Autour de Nohant (published in Paris in 1897), Les anciennes provinces de France: Le Berry, a travel diary, and an unpublished memoir titled Les malheurs d'un homme heureux.
Plauchut died in 1909. Although he is not a widely known name today, the record he left behind suggests a lively, curious writer whose life linked journalism, travel, and literary friendship across several worlds.