Images du Dahomey - Edmond Fortier et le colonialisme français dans la terre des Voduns. Proche et Moyen Orient The epigraphic expression of public

The epigraphic expression of public and private life was most fertile in Proconsular Africa under the Roman Empire

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some with their camels

The sculptor's studio in the Cité Fleurie

unique in its genre

Images du Dahomey - Edmond Fortier et le colonialisme français dans la terre des Voduns. Proche et Moyen Orient The epigraphic expression of publicPhotographer Edmond Fortier was born in the Vosges Mountains (France) in 1862, but settled in Dakar, in the French colony of Senegal, in West Africa, during the last decade of the 19th century. He left us a corpus of more than 4,000 images, published mostly in the form of postcards. Since the original negatives have not yet been found, the study of his production involves collecting and organizing objects that have been scattered for more than a