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Después de haber aprendido el oficio de cerrajero en Aguessac, se instaló en Rozier. En 1888, Martel llegó a Rozier, donde conoció a Louis Armand se convirtió entonces en su colaborador, en el marco de sus exploraciones, tanto en Francia como en el extranjero.
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The Aven Armand was unexplored for thousands of years. It is one of those pits that inspire terrifying legends and are accused of being devil's throats that swallow up lost travellers and wandering herds. We owe the discovery of this swallow-hole to Louis Armand, who explored it with Edouard Alfred Martel, the pioneer of speleology. Armand worked alongside Louis as an explorer both in France and abroad. On 18 September 1897, at the Hôtel des Voyageurs in Rozier, Louis Armand announced to Martel: "Yesterday when 1 was going down from the Parade 1 landed by chance on an master hole. The big stones that 1 threw down it went a hell of a long way and made an incredible amount of noise." On 19 September, Martel, Viré and Armand arrived on the site with a linge amount of equipment. As Martel described it: "A thousand kilos of ladders, ropes, telephone, camp beds, light cases, clothes, provisions and tools". Armand went down the 75‑metre vertical drop first without encountering any major difficulties. As soon as lie posed his feet on the scree cone, lie cried out "It's huge!" Then lie discovered the Forêt Vierge ( Virgin Forest) and telephoned to Martel: "Mister Martel, it's splendid! There are at least a 100 columns. The biggest must be a good 25 metres high. I have never seen anything like it. Come down and see for yourself".
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