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Léon Cahun
David Léon Cahun (23 June 1841, Haguenau, Alsace – 30 March 1900, Paris) was a French traveler, Orientalist and writer.
Life.
Cahun's family, who came originally from Lorraine, destined him for a military career. However, owing to family affairs he was compelled to relinquish this, and he devoted himself to geographical and historical studies. In 1863 he began to publish a series of geographical articles and accounts of his travels in Egypt and neighboring countries in the "Revue Française
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Early life.
Born in Nantes in 1894, Cahun was born into a provincial but prominent intellectual Jewish family. Cahun was the niece of avant-garde writer Marcel Schwob and the great-niece of Orientalist David Léon Cahun. When Cahun was four years old, their mother, Mary-Antoinette Courbebaisse, began suffering from mental illness, which ultimately led to her permanent internment at a psychiatric facility. In their mother's absence,