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TERNAUX, Henry (tair-no), better known as Ternaux-Compans, French historian, born in Paris in 1807; died there in December, 1864. After finishing his studies in Paris, he entered the diplomatic service and was secretary of the embassies at Madrid and Lisbon, and charge d'affaires in Brazil, but resigned, and devoted several years to travel through Spain and South America, making researches in the state libraries. Toward the close of Louis Philippe's reign he was elected deputy, but he soon returned to his studies. Ternaux-Compans collected and published a valuable series of works concerning the discovery and early history of South America. They include "Bibliotheque Americaine, ou catalogue des ouvrages relatifs a l'Amerique depuis sa decouverte en 1493, jusqu'en l'an 1700 ; (Paris, 1836); "Voyages, relations et memoires originaux pour servir A l'histoire de la decouverte de l'Amerique" (10 vols., 1836-'8; 2d series, 10 vols., 1839-'40); "Archives des voyages, ou collection d'anciennes relations inedites" (2 vols., 1840-'1) ; "Recueil de documents et memoires originaux sur l'histoire des possessions Espagnoles dans l'Amerique a diverses epoques de la conquete", (1840)" "Essai sur la theogonie Mexicaine" (1840) ; "Essai sur l'ancien Cundinamarca" (1862)" "Notice historique sur la Guyane Francaise" (1863); and "Histoire du Mexique par Don Alvaro Tezozomac" (2 vols., 1849).
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