{"id":3554,"date":"2010-06-09T16:24:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T16:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/launay-louis-de\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:30:50","slug":"launay-louis-de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/launay-louis-de\/","title":{"rendered":"Launay, Louis de"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Louis_de_Launay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27972\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Louis_de_Launay.jpg\" alt=\"Louis_de_Launay\" width=\"180\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>Louis de <\/strong><strong>L<\/strong><strong>aunay <\/strong><strong>(1860-1938) <\/strong>was a French mining engineer. He became professor of geology, mineralogy and palaeontology and was also a science historian, a novelist and a poet. He has written extensively throughout his life, including a 1936, magazine article<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/k-l\/\"><sup>615<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>\u00a0 in which he placed Atlantis in <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mexico\/\">Mexico<\/a>. In 1912, he was elected as a member of the Academy of Sciences and in 1931, he became a 1<sup>st<\/sup> class Commander of the Legion of Honour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis de Launay (1860-1938) was a French mining engineer. He became professor of geology, mineralogy and palaeontology and was also a science historian, a novelist and a poet. He has written extensively throughout his life, including a 1936, magazine article[615]\u00a0 in which he placed Atlantis in Mexico. In 1912, he was elected as a member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2259,2137,42],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-louis-de-launay","tag-mexico"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67232,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions\/67232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}