French naturalists

Alfred Grandidier ( December 20 1836– September 13 1921) was a French naturalist and explorer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Grandidier"

Alfred Malherbe ( 1804 – 1866) was a French magistrate and amateur naturalist. He was the administrator of the Museum of Metz. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Malherbe"

Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon ( May 7, 1804 - April 15, 1863) was a French naturalist and doctor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Moquin-Tandon"

Charles Alexandre Lesueur ( 1778 - 1846) was a French naturalist, artist and explorer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Alexandre Lesueur"

Jean Baptiste Édouard Verreaux ( 1810 - 1868) was a French naturalist, collector and dealer. He was the brother of Jules Verreaux. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edouard Verreaux"

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ( April 15, 1772 - June 19, 1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". ...more on Wikipedia about "Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire"

François Louis Nompar de Caumount de la Porte, comte de Castelnau ( 25 December 1810 – 4 February 1880) was a French naturalist. (Note: some sources give his year of birth as 1812.) ...more on Wikipedia about "François Louis de la Porte, comte de Castelnau"

François Péron ( 1775 - 1810) was a French naturalist and explorer. ...more on Wikipedia about "François Péron"

Jacques Barraband ( 1767 - 1809) was a French zoological illustrator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jacques Barraband"

Doctor Jacques Bernard Hombron ( 1798 – 1852) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jacques Bernard Hombron"

Jacques Marie Frangile Bigot ( 1818 - 1893) was a French naturalist and entomologist most noted for his studies of Diptera. Born in Paris, where he lived all his life, though he had a small house in Petit-Quincy, Seine-et-Oise.He became a member of the Entomological Society of France in 1844. His first paper was published in its Annals in 1845, as was most of his later work. Bigot was a prolific author and like Francis Walker his work was the subject of much later criticism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot"

Jean Baptiste Audebert ( 1759 - 1800) was a French artist and naturalist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jean-Baptiste Audebert"

Jean-Charles Chenu ( August 30th 1808, Metz - November 12th 1879, Paris) was a French physician and naturalist. Chenu is the author of an Encyclopaedia of Natural History. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jean-Charles Chenu"

Jean-Louis Berlandier (ca. 1805 – 1851) was a French naturalist and anthropologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jean-Louis Berlandier"

Jeanne Baré is probably the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation. She was a member of Louis Antoine de Bougainville's expedition in La Boudeuse and L'Étoile in 1766– 1769. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jeanne Baré"

Joseph Deniker ( March 6, 1852, Astrakhan – March 18, 1918, Paris) was a French naturalist and anthropologist, known primarily for his attempts to develop highly-detailed maps of race in Europe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joseph Deniker"

Jules Pierre Verreaux ( 1807 - 1873) was a French botanist and ornithologist. He was the brother of Edouard Verreaux and nephew of Pierre Antoine Delalande. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jules Verreaux"

Dr. Philibert Commerçon (also sometimes spelled Commerson) ( November 18, 1727– March 13, 1773) was a French naturalist, best known for accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of circumnavigation in 1766– 1769. ...more on Wikipedia about "Philibert Commerçon"

Pierre Antoine Delalande ( 1787 - 1823) was a French naturalist and explorer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pierre Antoine Delalande"

Pierre Dénys de Montfort ( 1766 – 1820) was a French naturalist, remembered today for his pioneering inquiries into the existence of the Giant Squid Archeteuthis, which was thought to be an old wives' tale, and for which he was long dismissed. He was inspired by a description from 1783 of an eight-metre long tentacle found in the mouth of a sperm whale. Dénys de Montfort was author of Conchyliologie systématique, et classification méthodique de coquilles (2 vols., Paris 1808 - 1810) and of Historie Naturalle Générale et Particulière des Mollusques (2 vols., Paris 1801 - 1802) published as an addendum to the comte de Buffon's Histoire naturelle générale et particulière. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pierre Denys de Montfort"

Abbé Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre ( 1752 – September 20, 1804) was a French naturalist who contributed sections on birds and fish to the Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique. He is also notable as the first scientist to study the feral child Victor of Aveyron. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre"

Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet (1761-1807), French naturalist, was born at Montpellier on the 28th of February 1761, and was educated for the medical profession. Visiting England, he was admitted in 1872 an honorary member of the Royal Society, and in the same year published at London the first part of his work on fishes, Ichthyologiae Decas I, material for which was communicated to him by Sir Joseph Banks. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet"

Pierre-Médard Diard ( 1794 - 1863) was a French naturalist and explorer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pierre-Médard Diard"

Prosper Garnot ( January 13, 1794 - 1838) was a French surgeon and naturalist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Prosper Garnot"

René Richard Louis Castel ( 1758– 1832) was a French poet and naturalist. ...more on Wikipedia about "René Richard Louis Castel"

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