F%C3%A9lix Bonfils
Flix Bonfils was a French photographer and writer who was active in the Middle East.
He was born in SaintHippolyteduFort and died in Als. Flix worked as a bookbinder but in 1860 he joined General dHautpouls expedition to the Levant. Soon after returning from Lebanon he became a photographer. When his son Adrien fell ill, Flix remembered the green hills around Beirut and sent him there to recover, being accompanied by MarieLydie Cabanis Bonfils, Flixs wife. The family moved to Beirut in 1867 where they opened a photographic studio called Maison Bonfils.
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