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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Paul-Émile Victor (June 28 1907 - March 7 1995) was a French ethnologist and explorer.

He was born in Geneva Switzerland. He graduated from École Centrale de Lyon in 1928. Paul-Émile Victor was the initiator of the Expéditions polaires françaises, the French polar expedition after the Second World War.

Mount Victor, in the Belgica Mountains of Antarctica, is named after him.


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