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Jean-Baptiste Ernest Noirot (18 August 1851 - 28 December 1913) was a French comic actor, photographer, explorer and colonial administrator in Senegal and French Guinea in West Africa. He became involved in scandal and was suspended in 1905 when two of his protegés were accused of extortion and other abuses of power, but later he was reinstated. ==Early years== Jean-Baptiste Ernest Noirot was born at Bourbonne-les-Bains in Haute Marne on 18 August 1851, son of a timber merchant. He served as a volunteer in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. For a while he worked at the Folies Bergère and the Folies Dramatiques in Paris as a comic actor. He seems to have worked at the Folies Bergère until 1880. His personnel file says he was also a publicist. Noirot was the artist and photographer on Dr. Jean-Marie Bayol's 1881-1882 expedition to explore the southern rivers of Senegal and Guinea. The expedition aimed to promote trade with the French as an alternative to existing arrangements with British traders in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He found a still-independent theocratic state in the Imamate of Futa Jallon. He made many landscapes, and several portrait photographs of local people and chiefs. The Almamis of Futa Jallon, Ibrahima and Amadou, sent an embassy of five notables that accompanied Noirot and Bayol on their return journey to France in January 1882. They spent a month in Bordeaux, Paris and Marseilles, where they were greatly impressed by what they saw. Noirot's 1882 book ''À travers le Fouta Djallon et le Bambouc (Soudan Occidental). Souvenirs de Voyage'' records his experiences. The ''Societe de Geographie de Marseille'' gave a very positive review of the book, written by an artist with humor and understanding, of his stay among the hospitable Fulani and Malinke people of the region. It may be due to this work that he was offered a position in the commission for the Exposition Coloniale Française held at Anvers in 1885-86. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ernest Noirot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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