Reclus
JEAN JACQUES ELISÉE, a French geographer; born in Sainte- Foix la Grande, France, March 15, 1830.
In consequence of his extreme democratic views he left France after the coup d'état of 1851, and spent the next seven years in England, Ireland, North and Central America, and Colombia. He returned to Paris in 1858 and published Marthe" (1861), and an introduction to "Journey to the Sierra Nevada of Sainte France" (1864). For being concerned the "Dictionary of the Communes of in the Communistic outbreak of 1871 he was banished from France, but returned under an amnesty in 1879. While livgreat masterpiece, "New General Geing in exile in Switzerland he began his ography" (14 vols. 1876-1889). Reclus ography" (vols. 1876-1889). great work, a physical geography entitled "The "History of a Brook" (1866); besides Earth" (Eng. trans. 1871 and 1887); "Terrestrial Phenomena" (1873) and 1905. "History of a Mountain" (1880). Died