F%C3%A9lix Dubois

Albert Flix Dubois was a French journalist, explorer and speculator who is best known for his books about his travels in French West Africa.

Dubois was born onSeptember 1862 in Dresden, Saxony. His father, Urbain Dubois, was a famous chef from Provence. His mother, Marie Virginie Boder, was from Neuchtel in Switzerland. His father returned to France when the FrancoPrussian War started in 1870. Felix and his younger brother Ernest studied at the college of Melun from 1873 to 1880, and then at the School of Commerce in Paris from 1880 to 1882. Felix then spent one year of military service at Dreux before becoming a journalist.

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