Hamburg, from Voyage pittoresque en Allemagne (Picturesque travel through Germany)
Xavier Marmier (22 June 1808 - 12 October 1892) was a French author born in Pontarlier, city famous for the production of absinthe until its prohibition in 1915. Xavier had a great passion for traveling, and combined this passion with literature. After journeying around Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands, he was attached in 1835 to the Arctic expedition of the Recherche; and after a couple of years at Rennes as professor of foreign literature, he visited (1842) Russia, (1845) Syria, (1846) Algeria, (1848–1849) North America and South America.
In 1870 he was elected to the Academy (Seat #31), and he was for many years prominently identified with the Sainte-Geneviève library. He did much to encourage the study of Scandinavian literature in France, publishing translations of Holberg, Oehlenschlager and others. He died in Paris in 1892.
Wrocław, the city hall.
Dresden.
