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Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld

French ascetic
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Also called (from 1890):
Père (Father) de Foucauld
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1858, Strasbourg, France
Died:
December 1, 1916, Tamanrasset, Algeria (aged 58)
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Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld (born 1858, Strasbourg, France—died December 1, 1916, Tamanrasset, Algeria) was a French soldier, explorer, and ascetic who is best known for his life of study and prayer after 1905 in the Sahara desert. Foucauld first visited North Africa in 1881 as an army officer participating in the suppression of an Algerian insurrection. He led an important exploration of Morocco in 1883–84 and, at a later time, studied the oases of southern Algeria. In 1890 he became a Trappist monk but soon left that order to become a solitary ascetic in Palestine. In 1901 he became ...(100 of 175 words)

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