Christian de Bonchamps

The Marquis
Christian de Bonchamps
Born(1860-06-15)15 June 1860
Died9 December 1919(1919-12-09) (aged 59)
NationalityFrench
Occupationexplorer

The Marquis Christian de Bonchamps (15 June 1860 – 9 December 1919)[1] was a French explorer in Africa and a colonial officer in the French Empire during the late 19th- early 20th-century epoch known as the "Scramble for Africa", who played an important role in two of the more notorious incidents of the period.

  1. ^ "Christian de Bonchamps". Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Retrieved 28 February 2015.