Jean-Baptiste Charcot
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Jean-Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot, better known in France as Commandant Charcot, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. As
Charcot in 1925
Vague Bleue ou Pourquoi pas. Hommage au commandant Charcot, by the French painter Arnaud Courlet de Vregille, 2016 (80 x 120 cm, Acrylic and pencil).
Funeral of Charcot and his men in front of the Notre Dame, Paris, 1936
Board in memory of Charcot. Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland
Jeanne Hugo
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Léopoldine Clémence Adèle Lucie Jeanne Hugo was a Belgian-born French heiress and socialite during La Belle Époque. She was a granddaughter of French novelist, poet, and politician Victor Hugo. As an
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
…Boland and Charcot Island, which was named after his father, Jean-Martin Charcot. He named Hugo Island after Victor Hugo, the grandfather of his wife, Jeanne Hugo. The Royal Geographical Society awarded its Patron's Medal to Charcot in 1911, citing "his important expeditions to the Antarctic, during which he…
Hugo in 1890
Jeanne with her grandfather and brother in 1872.