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Charles de Foucauld
Charles de Foucauld was a French army officer and explorer who became a Catholic priest and hermit in the Sahara. From 1905 he lived among the Kel Ahaggar Tuareg at Tamanrasset, where he compiled a Tuareg dictionary and collected their poetry. He was killed by raiders in 1916 and was declared a saint in 2022.
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