See also:

• ANDRE, JOHN (1751-178o)

ANDRE See also:

• JEAN

JEAN FRANCCOIS See also:

• MARIE

MARIE BROCHANT DE See also:

• VILLIERS, CHARLES PELHAM (1802-1898)

VILLIERS (1772-1840)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French mineralogist and geologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• VILLIERS, CHARLES PELHAM (1802-1898)

Villiers, near See also:

• NANTES
• NANTES, EDICT OF

Nantes, on the 6th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1772 . After studying at the Ecole Polytechnique, he was in 1794 the first See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil admitted to the Ecole See also:

• DES

des Mines . In 1804 he was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology and See also:

• MINERALOGY

mineralogy in the Ecole des Mines, which had been temporarily transferred to Pezay in See also:

• SAVOY, HOUSE
• SAVOY, HOUSE OF

Savoy, and he returned with the school to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris in 1815 . Later on he became inspector See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general of mines and a member of the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of Sciences . He investigated the transition strata of the Tarantaise, wrote on the position of the See also:

• GRANITE (adapted from the Ital. granite, grained; Lat. granum, grain)

granite rocks of Mont See also:

• BLANC, (JEAN JOSEPH CHARLES) LOUIS (1811-1882)
• BLANC, MONT

Blanc, and on the See also:

• LEAD
• LEAD (pronounced iced)

lead minerals of See also:

• DERBYSHIRE

Derbyshire and See also:

• CUMBERLAND
• CUMBERLAND, DUKES AND EARLS OF
• CUMBERLAND, RICHARD (1632-1718)
• CUMBERLAND, RICHARD (1732-1811)
• CUMBERLAND, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS

Cumberland . He was charged with the superintendence of the construction of the See also:

• GEOLOGICAL

geological See also:

• MAP
• MAP (or MAPES), WALTER (d. c. 1208/9)

map of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, undertaken by his pupils Dufrenoy and See also:

• ELIE

Elie de See also:

• BEAUMONT
• BEAUMONT, BELMONT, or BELLOMONT
• BEAUMONT, CHRISTOPHE DE (1703-1781)
• BEAUMONT, SIR JOHN (1583–1627)

Beaumont . He died in Paris on the 16th of May 1840 . His publications include Traite elementaire de mineralogie (2 vols., 1801—1802; 2nd ed., 18c8), and Traite abrege de cristallographie (Paris, 1818) .