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TRESSAN, Philippe Francois de la Renandiere de, French geographer, born in Vire, Normandy, in 1781; died in Paris in February, 1845. He was for several years president of the civil tribunal of his native city, but resigned in 1815 to devote himself to geographical researches, and became in 1823 editor of the noted collection "Les annales des voyages." Besides his contributions on South and North American scenery to this periodical, he prepared a new edition of Malte-Brun's geography, and published, among other works, "Notice sur Mexico, suivie d'un coup d'ceil historique sur les derniers evenements qui s'y sont succedes depuis 1810" (Paris, 1824); " Histoire du Mexique" (1829); "Voyages de Christophe Colomb" (1836); "La guerre civile dans l'Amerique du Sud" (1840); and "Le Mexique" (1843).
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