Emmanuel Domenech, a French traveller and author, born about 1815. He early became a priest, and went as missionary to Texas and Mexico, and on his return to France was appointed honorary canon of Montpellier. In 1862 he was chaplain of the French army in Mexico, and subsequently attached to Maximilian's cabinet. He has published Journal (Tun missionnaire au Texas et au Mexiquc (1857) ; Voyage dans les solitudes americaines (1858) ; Voyage pittoresque dans les grands deserts du nouveau monde (1861); Les Gorges du Diable (1864); Legended irlandaises (1865); Le Mexique tel qu'il est (1867); and Histoire du Mexique, Juarez et Maximilien: correspon-dances inedites (3 vols., 1868). Prim and others contested the historical veracity of the last named work. His Manuscrit pictographique americain, precede d'une notice sur l'ideogra-phie des Peaux Rouges (1860), was published at the expense of the government, with a facsimile of a manuscript in the library of the Paris arsenal, relating as he fancied to the American Indians, but which the German orientalist Julius Petzholdt declares to consist of scribbling and incoherent illustrations of a local German dialect.

Domenech asserted the authenticity of the manuscript in a pamphlet entitled La verite sur le litre des sautages (1861), which drew forth a reply from Petzholdt, translated into French under the titlo of Le litre des sautages au point de vue de la civilisation francaise (Brussels, 1861).