Jules Trousset

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Portrait engraved by Henri Thiriat (1885).

Jules Trousset (28 August 1842 in Moulidars (Charente) – 1905, Paris) was a 19th-century French encyclopedist, historian and geographer.

Although he was a well known man in his time, very few things have survived on the life of Jules Trousset. A former teacher and director of publication, he was the author of popular books. He notably wrote the Atlas national and the Encyclopédie d’économie domestique, both rewarded by learned societies. A committed man, he founded Le Réveil républicain. Organe des Comités républicains du canton de Sceaux et de Villejuif and was mayor of Malakoff from 1893 to 1896.

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