Life

Hippolyte Louis Gory was born in Paris, 5th arrondissement

Arrondissements of France

The 101 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts.The capital of an arrondissement/district is called a subprefecture...

 the 27 (or the 28) September 1800 (the exact date is 5 vendémiaire an IX in the republican calendar

French Republican Calendar

The French Republican Calendar or French Revolutionary Calendar was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days by the Paris Commune in 1871...

). He was married to Sophie Marie Sotom at Paris the 30th March 1826. He died the 26th April 1852 at Paris, 11ème arrondissement

Arrondissements of France

The 101 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts.The capital of an arrondissement/district is called a subprefecture...

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Works

Horn & Schenkling give a list of 44 entomological works

One of his main works was the Histoire naturelle et iconographie des insectes coléoptères (1837–1841), volumes 2-4; Castelnau writing the first volume only. This has become one of the rarest entomological books.

Another well-known magistral work is the Monographie des Cétoines et genres voisins, published with Percheron

Achille Rémy Percheron

Achille Rémy Percheron was a French entomologist. He listed, in Bibliographie entomologique more than 5 000 authors and 500 anonymous contributions.-Works:...

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