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Louis Charles Eugène Joseph de Fouchier
b. 1869
A French travel writer and senior public official, he is remembered today for a late-19th-century book on Portugal written with Gérard de Beauregard. His life joined literary curiosity with a long career at France’s Court of Audit.
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In Portugal De Aarde en haar Volken, 1908
by Gerard de Beauregard, Louis Charles Eugène Joseph de Fouchier
About the author
Born in Angers on February 13, 1869, Louis Charles Eugène Joseph de Fouchier came from an old Poitou family. The French Court of Audit’s biographical dictionary records that he later became a président de chambre at the Cour des comptes, showing that his public career was a substantial one as well as a literary sideline.
For readers, his name is most closely linked to In Portugal, a travel narrative credited on Project Gutenberg to Gérard de Beauregard and Louis Charles Eugène Joseph de Fouchier. The book was published in 1908 in De Aarde en haar Volken and offers an observant, wide-ranging portrait of Portugal, its cities, customs, and everyday life.
He died in Paris on April 25, 1962. Reliable sources available here give a clear outline of his family background and official career, but they do not provide many personal details beyond that, so the picture that remains is of a well-placed French magistrate whose surviving literary reputation rests on one vivid travel work.