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Sep 16, 1832 Laval, Pays de la Loire, France Died on 16 Feb 1881 (aged 48)
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About Paul Flatters
- Paul Flatters (16 September 1832 – 16 February 1881) was a French soldier who spent a long period as a military administrator in Algeria.
- He is known as leader of the Flatters expedition, an ill-fated attempt to explore the route of a proposed Trans-Saharan railway from Algeria to the Sudan.
- Almost all members of the expedition were massacred by hostile Tuaregs.
- The survivors resorted to eating grass and to cannibalism on the long retreat through the desert.
- After a brief outburst of public indignation the fiasco was forgotten.
