Portrait of Father Charles de Foucauld

Collection title

Gateway

ID

EPT00058

Source

EPTV (DZ)

First broadcast date

01/23/2006

Production year

2006

Abstract

Father Charles de Foucauld was born in 1958 in Strasbourg. He was one of the first French to fall in love with the magnificence of the Algerian Sahara, so he settled in Tamanrasset, in 1905, where he built his hermitage. He wrote a Tuareg- French dictionary and conducted research in meteorology; Father De Foucauld had also begun to build a shelter against attacks for his Tuareg brothers. He was killed during one of these attacks in 1916.

Type

video

Production companies

• EPTV - Own production

Broadcaster

EPTV - Canal Algérie

Audiovisual form

Magazine

Personalities

• Brother Edouard

Primary theme

Latin and oriental christendom

Credits / Cast

• Choubane Sofia - Journalist

Period of events

• From 1900 to 1925

Map locations

• Algeria - South (Sahara) - Tamanrasset

Original language

French

Media running time

4m48

Additional information