Antoine d'Abbadie, l'itinéraire météorologique d'un «savant aux pieds nus», de l'Éthiopie à la Société météorologique de France

Antoine d'Abbadie, eminent scientific personality of the nineteenth century, known for his work in astronomy, geodesy, linguistics and for his exploration of Ethiopia, also took a strong interest in meteorology, which made him contribute to the founding of the French Meteorological Society in 1852. His stay in Ethiopia, between 1838 and 1848, allowed him to collect a wide range of meteorological observations, particularly on the dynamics and climatology of rainfall and thunderstorms. This article traces the path of the scientist and presents his observations by putting them in the double perspective of past and present knowledge