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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 101 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIERRE FRANCOIS STANISLAS DESNOYERS (1800-1887)  , French geologist and archaeologist, was born at Nogent-le-Rotrou, in the department of
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Eure-et-Loir, on the 8th of
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October 1800 . Becoming interested in geology at an early age, he was one of the founders of the Societe Geologique de France in 183o . In 1834 he was appointed librarian of the Museum of Natural
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History in Paris . His contributions to
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geological science comprise
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memoirs on the
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Jurassic, Cretaceous and
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Tertiary Strata of the Paris Basin and of
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Northern France, and other papers
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relating to the antiquity of man, and to the question of his co-existence with
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extinct mammalia . His
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separate books were Sur la Craie et sur
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les terrains tertiaires du Cotentin (1825), Recherches geologiques et historiques sur les cavernes (1845) . He died in 1887 .

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