Maurice Jean Auguste Girard (13 September 1822 Givet

Givet

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, Ardennes

Ardennes

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 - 8 September 1886 Lion-sur-Mer

Lion-sur-Mer

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) was a French

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 entomologist.

Girard entered École normale supérieure

École normale supérieure

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in 1844. In 1847 he taught physics

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 in Périgueux

Périgueux

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. After having obtained his agrégation, he left for Dijon

Dijon

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 where he taught from 1853 to 1873. during this time he obtained his “licence” and his “doctorat ès-sciences naturelles” with a thesis entitled Étude sur la chaleur libre dégagée par les animaux invertébrés et spécialement les insectes.

He edited L'Insectologie agricole, journal traitant des insectes utiles... et des insectes nuisibles... from 1867 to 1870. He wrote more than 200 publications on insects and a book on François Péron

François Péron

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- François Péron, naturaliste voyageur aux australes (1800-1804) (J.-B. Baillière, Paris, 1856)

He was president of Société entomologique de France

Société entomologique de France

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in 1867.

• Les Métamorphoses des insectes (Hachette, Paris, 1866, réédité en 1879).
• Catalogue raisonné des animaux utiles et nuisibles de la France. I. Animaux utiles, leurs services et leur conservation ; II. Animaux nuisibles, dégâts qu'ils produisent, moyens de les détruire (Hachette, 1874, réédité en 1878 et en 1879).
• Histoire naturelle. Zoologie (C. Delagrave, Paris, deux volumes, 1883-1887).
• Le Phylloxéra de la vigne, son organisation, ses mœurs, choix des procédés de destruction (Hachette, Paris, 1878, réédité en 1880 et en 1883).
• Les Abeilles, organes et fonctions, éducation et produits, miel et cire (J.-B. Baillière et fils, Paris, réédité en 1887 et en 1890).

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