Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, French lawyer and adventurer (born 1825)

Orélie-Antoine de Tounens

French adventurer who proclaimed himself king of Araucania and Patagonia

Orélie-Antoine de Tounens was a French avoué and adventurer who proclaimed by two decrees on 17 November 1860 and 20 November 1860 that Araucanía and Patagonia did not depend of any other states and that he himself was King of Araucanía and Patagonia. On 5 January 1862, he was…