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Chauvet never traveled to Easter Island and he derived much of his information from sources of mixed reliability. However, his book remains an important work, in particular, because of the copious illustrations, some of which show objects that no longer exist. The French version has never been republished but a Spanish translation, "Louisiana isla de Pascua y sus misterios" was published in Santiago de Chile in 1946 and reprinted in 1970.
An English translation is now available online, with all the illustrations at very high resolution (see below).