Baron Edmond de Mandat-Grancey (the good) (1842–1911), was a French journalist, writer and naval

French Navy

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 officer.

Life

After serving in the army, baron de Mandat-Grancey went on long travels. Starting in the 1880s he wrote a series of articles for the Correspondant on his trip into west Canada. He also published many works on his trip to Chicago, New York and Dakota

Dakota Territory

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 in the United States of America, in which he put the French public on guard against what he saw as American "imperialism

Imperialism

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".

Mandat-Grancey also visited Madagascar

Madagascar

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, the French Congo

French Congo

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 and the Congo Free State

Congo Free State

The Congo Free State was a large area in Central Africa which was privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians. Its origins lay in Leopold's attracting scientific, and humanitarian backing for a non-governmental organization, the Association internationale africaine...

 (owned by king Leopold II of Belgium

Leopold II of Belgium

Leopold II was the second king of the Belgians. Born in Brussels the second son of Leopold I and Louise-Marie of Orléans, he succeeded his father to the throne on 17 December 1865 and remained king until his death.Leopold is chiefly remembered as the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free...

) as well as Greece

Greece

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 and Ireland

Ireland

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, writing memoirs of his trips there. At the turn of the century, the name of Mandat-Grancey would be associated with the royalism

Orléanist

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 of Charles Maurras

Charles Maurras

Charles-Marie-Photius Maurras was a French author, poet, and critic. He was a leader and principal thinker of Action Française, a political movement that was monarchist, anti-parliamentarist, and counter-revolutionary. Maurras' ideas greatly influenced National Catholicism and "nationalisme...

 and the Action Française

Action Française

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. He was one of the first contributors to the Revue d'Action française (founded by Henri Vaugeois

Henri Vaugeois

Henri Vaugeois was a French far right politician and one of the founders of Action Française.Born in L'Aigle, Orne, Vaugeois settled in Coulommiers where he taught philosophy. Initially a republican liberal, Vaugeois even flirted with Marxism in his youth...

 and Maurice Pujo

Maurice Pujo

Maurice Pujo was a French journalist and co-founder, with Henri Vaugeois in 1898, of the Comité d'Action Française, which subsequently became the nationalist and monarchist Action Française movement.His son, Pierre Pujo led Action Française until his death on 10 November 2007....

 in 1899). He collected his articles in one volume as Le Clergé français et le Concordat (Paris, Perrin) in 1905.

Works

• Dans les montagnes rocheuses (In the Rocky Mountains
  Rocky Mountains
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  , 1884)
• En visite chez l'oncle Sam : New York et Chicago (Visiting Uncle Sam
  Uncle Sam
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  's home, 1885)
• Chez Paddy (In Paddy's home, 1887)
• La brèche aux buffles. Un ranch français dans le Dakota (Buffalo gap - a French ranch in Dakota, 1889)
• Chez John Bull, journal d'un rural (In John Bull's home - journal of a rural stay, 1895)
• Au Congo «1898». Impressions d'un touriste (In the Congo 1898 - a tourist's impressions, 1900)
• Au pays d'Homère (In the land of Homer
  Homer
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  , 1902)
• Souvenirs de la côte d'Afrique (Memoirs of the coast of Africa - Madagascar, Saint-Barnabé)