Henry de Monfreid

Henry or Henri de Monfreid ( born November 14, 1879 in Leucate, France, † 13 December 1974) was a French writer and adventurer. Henry is the son of French art collector George -Daniel de Monfreid whose close friend Paul Gauguin was.

Life

First Monfreid worked as a food chemist for Maggi and took other smaller auxiliary works. He lived with Lucie, the mother of his son Marcel, together, until he left her in 1905. 1906 traveled Monfreid first time to Africa. In 1913 he married his longtime friend Armgart, an Alsatian, with whom he should have three children who grew up in Obock.

A year later he was arrested in Djibouti for arms trafficking, but soon released. He remained in military service saves as it should be used as a spy against Turkey; re- arrest on weapons and drug trafficking defeated this well.

At the instigation of his friend Joseph Kessel, who wrote his novel Fortune Carrée 1932 Monfreid, published Les secrets de Monfreid 1931 de la Mer Rouge, its great success resulted in 74 additional books. Monfreid in France takes the place of a great adventurer of the 20th century and is still a much -read author. His largely autobiographical inspired novels and short stories mostly play in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea.

Film

Henri de Monfreid life story was made ​​into a film in 1968 as a television Eve series:

• Description of the TV series