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See also:PIERRE See also:ANDRE See also:LATREILLE (1762–1833) , See also:French naturalist, was See also:born in humble circumstances at Brives-la-Gaillarde (See also:Correze), on the loth of See also:November 1762 . In 1778 he entered the See also:college Lemoine at See also:Paris, and on his See also:admission to priestly orders in 1786 he retired to Brives, where he devoted all the leisure which the See also:discharge of his professional duties allowed to the study of See also:entomology . In 1788 he returned to Paris and found means of making himself known to the leading naturalists there . His " Memoire sur See also:les mutilles decouvertes en See also:France," contributed to the Proceedings of the Society of Natural See also:History in Paris, procured for him admission to that See also:body . At the Re-volution he was compelled to quit Paris, and as a See also:priest of conservative sympathies suffered considerable hardship, being imprisoned for some See also:time at See also:Bordeaux . His Precis See also:des caracteres generiques des insectes, disposes clans un ordre naturel, appeared at Brives in 1796 . In 1798 he became a corresponding member of the See also:Institute, and at the same time was entrusted with the task of arranging the entomological collection at the recently organized Museum d'Histoire Naturelle (Jardin des Plantes); in 1814 he succeeded G . A . See also:Olivier as member of the See also:Academic des Sciences, and in 1821 he was made a See also:chevalier of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour . For some time he acted as See also:professor of See also:zoology in the veterinary school at Alfort near Paris, and in 183o, when the See also:chair of zoology of invertebrates at the Museum was divided after the See also:death of See also:Lamarck, See also:Latreille was appointed professor of zoology of crustaceans, arachnids and See also:insects, the chair of molluscs, See also:worms and zoophytes being assigned to H . M . D. de See also:Blainville .
" On me See also:donne du See also:pain quand je n'ai plus de dents," said Tatreille, who was then in his sixty-eighth See also:year
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He died in Paris on the 6th of See also:February 1833
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In addition to the See also:works already mentioned, the numerous works of Latreille include: Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des crustaces el insectes (14 vols., 18oa-1805), forming See also:part of C
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Sonnini's edition of See also:Buffon; Genera crustaceorum et insectorum, secundum ordinem naturalem in familias disposita (4 vols., 18o6–1807) ; Considerations generales sur l'ordre naturel des animaux composant les classes des crnstaces, des arachnides, et des insectes (181 o); Families naturelles du regne See also:animal, exposees succinctement et dans un ordre analytique (1825); Cours d'entomologie (of which only the first See also:volume appeared, 1831); the whole of the See also:section
Crustaces, Arachnides, Insectes," in G
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See also:Cuvier's Regne animal; besides many papers in the Annales du Museum, the Encyclopedie methodique, the Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle and elsewhere
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LA TREMOILLE, an old French See also:family which derives its name from a See also:village (the See also:modern La Trimouille) in the See also:department of See also:Vienne
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The family has been known since the See also:middle of the 11th See also:century, and since the 14th century its members have been conspicuous in French history
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See also:Guy, sire de la Tremoille, See also:standard-See also:bearer of France, was taken prisoner at the See also:battle of See also:Nicopolis (1396), and Georges, the favourite of See also:
Louis (3) became duke of See also:Thouars in 1563, and his son See also:Claude turned See also:Protestant, was created a peer of France in 1595, and married a daughter of See also: |
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