THE 1001 LIVES OF SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON

52 mn

THE 1001 LIVES OF SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON

Documentaries|52 mn|LCN La Chaîne Normande, TL7 Télé Loire 7

Synopsis

He was both a boxer and an outstanding fencer, the best in England, a soldier and then a war strategist, a geometer and topographer, a columnist and draftsman, a spy and an explorer: he founded the London Society of Anthropology to make fun of the conformity of the National Geographic Society… I see you moving in your armchair, but allow me to continue… Author, poet and translator: we owe him in particular the first adaptation of The Thousand and One Nights and the Kâma-Sûtra which surprisingly escaped the censorship of our beloved Queen. Lovers of an Islam of the Enlightenment, renowned ethnologist. His writings on Sindh and its rites, on Africa and its customs are now taught in Oxford, he has never ceased to raise the barriers of ignorance. Hypnotist and skilled in esotericism, he coined the term EPS “extra sensory perception”, he became at the end of his life consul of Great Britain in Brazil, in Damascus in Syria and finally in Trieste in the service of our Queen Victoria who, as you know, made him a knight of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. It can be said that he was thus recognized late by his peers and by his country…
Are you still nodding…?

Executive producer(s)

TANGARO / CLC PRODUCTIONS

Coproducers

Télégrenoble, TL7 Télé Loire 7, LCN La Chaîne Normande

Partner

CNC

Distribution

Author

Laurent PRÉYALE

Director

Laurent PRÉYALE

Editing

Nicolas BOUCHER

Sound mix

Raphaël DEVILLERS

Voice

Jean-Claude DREYFUS, Vincent GRASS, Peter HUDSON, Kester LOVELACE
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