Overseas department of France in the Indian Ocean

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Sálazie, Réunion Islands: hot springs and snowy peaks. Tinted lithograph by A. Roussin after himself.

On Monday, July 19th, 1869 & every evening until further notice : the performance will commencewith (Wednesday and Thursday excepted) the interesting drama, in four acts, entitled  - the Black Doctor : acts I. and II. the island of Bourbon, 1788 ... / Grecian Theatre ... City Road.

Saint-Benoît, La Réunion, Indian Ocean: a waterfall in the Rivière des Roches, seen from the lowest of three water levels. Aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1819, after J.J. Patu de Rosemont.

Curing the colonizers : hydrotherapy, climatology, and French colonial spas / Eric T. Jennings.

Les Isles / Raphaël Barquissau.

Anthropologie médicale en société créole / Jean Benoist.

Rough notes of a trip to Réunion, the Mauritius and Ceylon : with remarks on their eligibility as sanitaria for Indian invalids / by Frederic J. Mouat.

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Saint-Benoît, La Réunion, Indian Ocean: a waterfall in the Rivière des Roches, seen from the lowest of three water levels. Aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1819, after J.J. Patu de Rosemont.

Curing the colonizers : hydrotherapy, climatology, and French colonial spas / Eric T. Jennings.

Les Isles / Raphaël Barquissau.

Anthropologie médicale en société créole / Jean Benoist.

Rough notes of a trip to Réunion, the Mauritius and Ceylon : with remarks on their eligibility as sanitaria for Indian invalids / by Frederic J. Mouat.