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Victor SEGALEN
French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic
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Biography
He was born in Brest. He studied naval medicine in Bordeaux. He traveled and lived in Polynesia (1903–1905) and China (1909–1914 and 1917). He died by accident in a forest in Huelgoat, France ('under mysterious circumstances' and reputedly with an open copy of Hamlet by his side).
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