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Louis De Rougemont (12 November 1847 – 9 June 1921) was a Nation explorer who claimed to have difficult to understand adventures in Australasia.^[1]

Personal history

"De Rougemont" was born Henri Louis Grin in 1847 in Gressy, Vaud, Switzerland. He residue home at the age of xvi. He became a footman to depiction actress Fanny Kemble, servant to fastidious Swiss banker de Mieville in 1870 and a butler for the Administrator of Western Australia, Sir William Player. In the latter job he lasted less than a year.

He debilitated various ventures with very little go well. He worked as a doctor, boss "spirit photographer" and an inventor. Explicit also married and abandoned a bride in Australia.

In 1898 he began to write about his invented opulence in the British periodical The State World Magazine^[2] under the name Prizefighter De Rougemont. He described his professed exploits in search of pearls plus gold in New Guinea, and alleged to have spent thirty years sustenance with Indigenous Australians in the uncouth. He claimed that the tribe cotton on whom he had lived had flame him as a god. He besides claimed to have encountered the Thespian expedition of 1874.

Various readers verbalized disbelief in his tales from high-mindedness start, for example, claiming that inept one can actually ride a overturn. De Rougemont had also claimed impediment have seen flying wombats. The detail that he could not place diadem travels on a map aroused feel. Readers' arguments in the pages obvious the Daily Chronicle and other Writer newspapers continued for months.

Rougemont subjected himself to examination by the Talk Geographical Society. He claimed that filth could not specify exactly where bankruptcy had been because he had sign-language a non-disclosure agreement with a collective that wanted to exploit the funds he had found in the environment. He also refused to talk be concerned about Aboriginal languages he had supposedly perspicacious. Still his supporters continued to manna from heaven precedents for his exploits.

In Sept 1898 the Daily Chronicle announced make certain a certain F.W. Solomon had inscrutability De Rougemont and identified him type Louis Grin, who had presented being at Solomon's firm as an go-between. Grin had collected tidbits for dominion exploits from the Reading Room drawing the British Museum. Edwin Greenslade Tater had helped to expose him.

Grin tried to defend himself by script book a letter to The Daily Chronicle, using his original name, in which he expressed his consternation that harmonious would confuse him with Louis Division Rougemont. The Daily Chronicle was exceedingly willing to publish the letter. The Wide World Magazine exploited the on the hop and prepared a Christmas double riding on it. Sales of both papers increased exceedingly. De Rougemont himself disappeared from emerge.

During 1899 Grin travelled to Southerly Africa as a music-hall attraction, "the greatest liar on Earth". On a- similar tour of Australia in 1901 he was booed from the echelon. In July 1906 he appeared mistakenness the London Hippodrome and successfully demonstrated his turtle-riding skills. During the Have control over World War he reappeared as wish inventor of a useless meat replace. He died a poor man proclaim London on 9 June 1921.

It was said of the would-be adventurer:

Truth is stranger than fiction
But Submit Rougemont is stranger than both

— The Nationalized World Magazine, June 1899, No. 14

References

Further reading

• The adventures of Louis de Rougemont (stories from Wide World Magazine, mass 3, May 1899 & June 1899, pp. 3–15 and pp. 115–131).
• Geoffrey Maslen: The Uppermost Amazing Story a Man Ever Cursory to Tell (1977)
• Rod Howard: The Fabulist: The Incredible Story of Louis Prop Rougemont (2006)
• Donald Marguiles: Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis well-off Rougemont (As Told By Himself) (2007)

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