Gattefossé, Jean

Jean Gattefossé (1899-1960) was an advocate of a North African Atlantis and wrote two books^[311][312] on the subject. Earlier Gattefossé, together with Claudius Roux, published an extensive bibliography in a volume^[313], which contains a list of 1,700 books and articles relating to Atlantis.

In 1939, Gattefossé published a novel, Les Portes de Bronze ^[1804] (The Bronze Doors), which purported to be based on the research notes of a then recently deceased ‘Jean de Sauveclare’, who had purportedly searched for Atlantis in 1921. Although de Sauveclare is noted on the cover as a co-author, I can find no record of any such real person – perhaps it was just a marketing ploy?

According to Atlantisforschung.de^(a) Gattefossé wrote to Egerton Sykes in 1959, declaring his belief that the Pillars of Heracles were situated in Tartessos, now known as Seville, “where they are a tourist attraction.” The same link has interesting additional information about Jean and his brother René-Maurice.

^(a) https://atlantisforschung.de/index.php?title=Jean_und_Ren%C3%A9-Maurice_Gattefoss%C3%A9  (German)