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
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)
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
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)