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Louis Charles Eugène Joseph de Fouchier

b. 1869

Best known for travel writing that wandered through Portugal, the Netherlands, southern Italy, and the Pyrenees, this French author also spent his professional life in public service. His books have the feel of an observant traveler sharing places, customs, and atmosphere with a curious reader.

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In Portugal

In Portugal

by Gérard de Beauregard, Louis Charles Eugène Joseph de Fouchier

About the author

Born in Angers on February 13, 1869, Louis Charles Eugène Joseph de Fouchier was a French writer and senior magistrate at the Cour des comptes. Official biographical records note that he died in Paris on April 25, 1962.

His published work points strongly toward travel literature. Records for his books include In Portugal (with Gérard de Beauregard), Au pays hollandais and Un mois aux Pyrenées (with his brother Charles de Fouchier), and L'Italie meridionale as part of a collaborative travel project. Across these titles, he appears as a careful observer of landscapes, cities, and everyday life.

That mix of administrative career and literary curiosity gives his writing a distinctive tone: informed, orderly, and interested in the real texture of a place. Even when only a few biographical details are easy to confirm, the surviving books make clear that he belonged to a generation of French authors who turned travel into vivid, accessible reading.