* [PHOTOGRAPHY] [ASIA]. AFRICA] - Lot 75

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* [PHOTOGRAPHY] [ASIA]. AFRICA] - Lot 75
* [PHOTOGRAPHY] [ASIA]. AFRICA] Album of 172 photographs: Haiti; Tahiti; Italy; Rhodes; Djibouti; Hong-Kong; Shanghai; Vietnam; Japan; Port-Saïd; Marseille, Aix, Nice. Silver prints of the period, mounted on self-adhesive corners, on black paper Dates: 1928-1933 Photographs taken during the crossing of the Félix Roussel in 1932. These are preceded by a few images taken between 1928-1931, notably during the sinking of the Caracoli, a liner of the Compagnie générale transatlantique, ligne des Antilles, which burned down in Port-au-Prince in 1928. Photos with captions. The names Blachère, Bozon, Barthélemy, Meunier and Mueller identify some of the passengers. The Félix Roussel is a French liner of the Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes, launched in 1929 in Saint-Nazaire. She is the sister-ship of the Georges Philippar and the Aramis. The Georges Philippar sank precisely in 1932 on her return from her first crossing, taking with her the journalist Albert Londres, thus the year of the present photos. The Félix Roussel bears the name of a former president of the Maritime Messenger Company, Félix Roussel, who was at the head of the company from 1914 to 1925. These ships, designed as mixed liners, could make long crossings (about a month and a half) in the Indian and Pacific Oceans and many stopovers. The Felix Roussel made her first voyage from Marseille on 26 February 1931, bound for Japan. On 4 April 1932, she repatriated the men and equipment of Citroën's Croisière jaune from China: the photos in this album show the self-propelled caterpillars docked in Saigon in central Asia in April 1932. The Felix Roussel has long represented the Far East line, serving Indochina, China, Japan and of course Hong Kong, where she regularly made stopovers from the 1930s to the 1950s. It was brought into service at a time when air transport was in its infancy (Air France's first air link, Marseille-Hong Kong, dates back to 1938). Its name can
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