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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Louis Vivien de St. Martin (1802–1897)

Vivien de St. Martin, Louis (viv-ye‘ de sa mär-ta‘), A French geographer; born at Caen, May 22, 1802; died on Jan. 3, 1897. He wrote: ‘Description of Asia Minor’ (2 vols., 1845); ‘Study on the Grecian and Roman Geography of India’ (3 vols., 1858–60); ‘Study on the Geography of the Primitive Peoples of Northwestern India according to the Vedic Hymns’ (1860); ‘The North of Africa in Grecian and Roman Antiquity’ (1863); ‘New Dictionary of Universal Geography’ (1876–93); ‘Universal Atlas of Geography, Modern, Ancient, and Mediæval’ (1877).