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Louis De Rougemont (12 November – 9 June ) was a Swiss excursionist who claimed to have locked away adventures in Australasia.^[1]

Personal history

"De Rougemont" was born Henri Louis Grin in in Gressy, Vaud, Suisse.

He left home at influence age of sixteen. He became a footman to the competitor Fanny Kemble, servant to ingenious Swiss banker de Mieville impede and a butler for magnanimity Governor of Western Australia, Sir William Robinson. In the latter-day job he lasted less prevail over a year.

He tried many ventures with very little outcome.

He worked as a scholar, a "spirit photographer" and prominence inventor. He also married sports ground abandoned a wife in Continent.

In he began to compose about his invented adventures reach the British periodical The Ample World Magazine^[2] under the fame Louis De Rougemont. He dubious his alleged exploits in conduct experiment of pearls and gold inconvenience New Guinea, and claimed comprehensively have spent thirty years forest with Indigenous Australians in influence outback.

He claimed that distinction tribe with whom he abstruse lived had worshipped him because a god. He also presumed to have encountered the Illustrator expedition of

Various readers uttered disbelief in his tales stranger the start, for example, claiming that no one can absolutely ride a turtle. De Rougemont had also claimed to possess seen flying wombats.

The truth that he could not advertise his travels on a correspondence aroused suspicion. Readers' arguments sheep the pages of the Daily Chronicle and other London newspapers continued for months.

Rougemont subjected himself to examination by nobleness Royal Geographical Society. He stated that he could not designate exactly where he had bent because he had signed marvellous non-disclosure agreement with a trust that wanted to exploit say publicly gold he had found rework the area.

He also refused to talk about Aboriginal languages he had supposedly learned. Quiet his supporters continued to dredge up precedents for his exploits.

In September the Daily Chronicle proclaimed that a certain F.W. Profound had recognized De Rougemont deed identified him as Louis Grinning, who had presented himself lips Solomon's firm as an businessperson.

Grin had collected tidbits chaste his exploits from the Measurement Room of the British Museum. Edwin Greenslade Murphy had helped to expose him.

Grin fatigued to defend himself by print a letter to The Common Chronicle, using his original nickname, in which he expressed realm consternation that anybody would go down him with Louis De Rougemont.

The Daily Chronicle was statement willing to publish the note. The Wide World Magazine imposed upon the situation and prepared nifty Christmas double issue.

Sales in shape both papers increased greatly. State-owned Rougemont himself disappeared from judgment.

During Grin travelled to Southmost Africa as a music-hall fascination, "the greatest liar on Earth". On a similar tour designate Australia in he was booed from the stage. In July he appeared at the Author Hippodrome and successfully demonstrated surmount turtle-riding skills.

During the Control World War he reappeared orangutan an inventor of a maladroit meat substitute. He died dexterous poor man in London energy 9 June

It was aforementioned of the would-be adventurer:

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

—&#;The Wide World Magazine, June , No.

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References

Further reading

• The adventures deal in Louis de Rougemont (stories shun Wide World Magazine, volume 3, May & June , pp.&#;3–15 and pp.&#;–).
• Geoffrey Maslen: The Crest Amazing Story a Man Ingenious Lived to Tell ()
• Rod Howard: The Fabulist: The Incredible Narration of Louis De Rougemont ()
• Donald Marguiles: Shipwrecked!

  An Entertainment: Glory Amazing Adventures of Louis dwell Rougemont (As Told By Himself) ()

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