Jean-Baptiste Eugène Bellier de la Chavignerie (28 January, 1844, Chartres

Chartres

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-25 September 1888, Évreux

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) was a French

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 entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera

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After his studies in Chartres then Paris, Chavignerie worked at the Palais de Justice in Paris

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 from 1844 to 1859. He was devoted to Lepidoptera and wrote many scientific papers on them, principally faunistic works. The most important were the fauna

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s of the Auvergne

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 (1850), the Alps

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 (de 1854 à 1858), the Pyrénées-Orientales

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 (1858), Sicily

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 (1860) and Corsica

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 (1861). Charles Oberthür

Charles Oberthür

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(1845-1924) acquired his collection after his death.

Source

Jean Lhoste (1987). Les Entomologistes français. 1750-1950. INRA Éditions : 351 p.

• Translation from French Wikipedia