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Louis-Théophile Marie Rousselet

Palace of the Bhurtpore Rajahs, Dëeg

1865–68, published 1869–70
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Louis Rousselet described himself as a “scientific traveler” when he went to India alone at age 18 in 1863 and stayed into 1868.

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