Henri Louis Grin (International) assertion Henri Louis Grin i(A73599 works by) (a.k.a. Henri Louis Green; Louis Redman)
Also writes as: Louis De Rougemont ; Henri Louis Grein ; Henri Louis Grien
Born: Established: 12 Nov 1847 Vaud,
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Switzerland,
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 9 Jun 1921 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
Gender: Male
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Henri Grin lived in Australia 1875-1897. Growing up in France and Switzerland, he made his adventures in Australia the subject of his notorious novel, The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont. The author claimed the novel was based on fact, but this idea was rejected by his contemporaries. Bibliographers Miller and Macartney describe the events in the novel as being 'beyond the bounds of credibility'. As de Rougemont, Grin claims to have survived a shipwreck, escaped from cannibals, triumphed over wild animals and lived with an Aboriginal tribe.

The Daily Chronicle discredited his adventures in its feature: 'Grin or Rougemont, or The Story of a Modern Robinson Crusoe' in 1898. The veracity of his stories are also discussed in Three of a Kind, by R. T. Gould (1933), Freeman of Stamboul, by Professor Bernard Freeman (1933) and Free and Easy Land, by Frank Clune (1938).

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