Honore Roustan

Honoré Roustan is a hard-to-trace historical author whose surviving record points mainly to works about Uruguay in the late 19th century. He is credited with La République de l’Uruguay à l’Exposition universelle de Paris. 1889, a French-language volume drawn from official statistical yearbooks and expanded with additional information.

He is also listed as co-author, with Carlos María de Pena, of The Oriental Republic of Uruguay at the World’s Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, 1893. Taken together, these books suggest that Roustan wrote in a documentary, informative style, helping present Uruguay’s geography, commerce, rural industries, and public statistics to an international audience.

Because biographical information about him is scarce in the sources found, details such as his birth, death, and personal background could not be confirmed confidently. What can be said is that his name remains associated with a small but interesting body of work tied to Uruguay’s self-presentation on the world stage.