United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018McAlexander, Hubert Horton2003-03-11Encyclopedia article about Francis Fontaine. Fontaine, an aristocrat possessed of a cultivated mind and brilliant conversational abilities, was a Renaissance man of nineteenth-century Georgia. A fearless Confederate soldier, a newspaper editor, Georgia's representative to the Paris Exposition, a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1877, and a force in Atlanta real estate and lending concerns, he is best remembered for his literary endeavors.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Fontaine, Francis, 1845-1901Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865Georgia--History--19th centuryGeorgia--Politics and government--19th centuryGeorgia--NewspapersColumbus(Ga.)--NewspapersColumbus times (Columbus, Ga.)Authors, American--GeorgiaFrancis Fontaine (1845-1901)Text