FOA, EDOUAR.D (1862-1901), French explorer, was born at Marseilles on Dec. 17, 1862. He visited the French colony of Dahomey in 1885, and between 1891 and 1897 made two ex tended trips into central Africa. On the latter he traversed the continent from the mouth of the Zambesi river on the east coast, through lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika to the Congo valley, ending at Libreville in the French colony of Gabon on the Atlantic Coast. He published Le Dahomeh (1895) ; Chasses aux grands fauves dans l'a f rique centrale (1899; Eng. trans. by F. Lees) , and Traversee de l'A f rique zu Zambieze au Congo francais (1900) .
See Resultats scientifiques de voyages en Afrique d'Edouard Fat (19o8).