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    Marc-Théodore Bourrit (1739–1819) was a traveller and writer from the Republic of Geneva. Marc-Théodore Bourrit came of a family which was of French origin...
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    be too demanding, in 1775 the Genevan artist and travel writer Marc-Théodore Bourrit sought a different path from the southern side of Chamonix and Vallorcine...
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    Argentine short-story writer, studied at the Collège de Genève Marc-Théodore Bourrit (1739–1819), traveller and writer Nicolas Bouvier (1929–1998), writer...
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    in those days was not yet highly specialised. On the other hand, Marc Théodore Bourrit, the contemporary of these three men, was rather a curious and inquisitive...
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    Genevese, in 1760 Horace Bénédict de Saussure, as well as rather later Marc-Théodore Bourrit. The growth of tourism in the early 19th century led to the formation...
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    Christian much later than their neighbours; the Swiss travel writer Marc-Théodore Bourrit, in Description des Alpes Pennines et Rhetiennes (1781) writes of...
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    attempts." Paccard had a first, unsuccessful, attempt in 1783 with Marc Theodore Bourrit.[citation needed] In 1784, he made several attempts with Jacques...
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  • in those days was not yet highly specialized. On the other hand, Marc Théodore Bourrit, the contemporary of these three men, was rather a curious and inquisitive...
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    achievement he wrote a few months later to the Genevese traveller Marc Theodore Bourrit: "The prospect from the Buet is magnificent but the Velan, which...
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  • Switzerland: Isaac Bardin, 1781. Gallica.bnf.fr. Web. 12 Feb. 2011. Bourrit, Marc-Théodore. A relation of a journey to the glaciers in the Dutchy of Savoy...
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