Jean-Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin Bory de Saint-Vincent was a French naturalist, officer and politician. He was born on 6 July 1778 in Agen and died on 22 December 1846 in Paris. Biologist and geograp
Bory Saint Vincent 1778 1846
Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult, protector of Bory de Saint-Vincent, under whose orders he served from 1809, and who appointed him colonel in 1814
The Classical Dictionary of Natural History in 17 volumes (1822), directed by Bory de Saint-Vincent. He published it, back in Paris, after 5 years of exile (1815-1820).
Bory de Saint-Vincent and the members of the scientific commission of the Morea Expedition studying the ruins of the stadium of ancient Messene (detail of a lithograph by Prosper Baccuet)
Pierre André Latreille
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Pierre André Latreille was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest before the French Revolution, Latreille was imprisoned, and only regained his freed
Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent
…persecuted and took refuge in the Landes. In 1794, as a precocious naturalist, aged 15, Bory was instrumental in freeing from prison the entomologist Pierre André Latreille, whose early work he had read, and in saving Latreille from deportation to the penal colony of Cayenne. Latreille later became one of the leading…
Latreille's birthplace in Brive-la-Gaillarde
Discovering Necrobia ruficollis while in prison saved Latreille's life.
Portrait of Latreille by Louis Figuier, 1875
Monument to Latreille over his grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery (39th division)