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1832 – Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de La Rochelle moves to the Hôtel du Gouvernement. 1844 – Musée des beaux-arts de La Rochelle [ fr ] opens in the Hôtel de Crussol d'Uzès. [ 13 ]
The charismatic Bories recruited from both non-commissioned officers and soldiers. Before leaving for La Rochelle, most of the regiment's non-commissioned officers worked in the coal industry. General Jean Baptiste Berton's insurrection began without the support of the 45th regiment on 23 February. Berton's consequent failure sowed doubt among ...
Bouthillier was born March 1, 1796, in Montreal to Jean Bouthillier, a successful merchant from La Rochelle, and Louise Perthuis. His sister was married to Pierre de Rastel de Rocheblave . In 1830 he married Françoise-Geneviève, daughter of Benjamin Trottier-Desrivières-Beaubien and Françoise-Geneviève Sabrevois de Bleury, sister of ...
La Rochelle seen from Spot Satellite The limestone cliffs around La Rochelle reveal the Jurassic geology of the area The bedrock of La Rochelle and surrounding areas is composed of layers of limestone dating back to the Sequanian stage (upper Oxfordian stage ) of the Jurassic period (circa 160 million years ago), when a large part of France was ...
Emile Hirsch (1832 – 1904) ... Joan of Arc at La Rochelle Cathedral, painted by Hirsch. References This page was last edited on 28 May 2024, at 09:34 ...
William-Adolphe Bouguereau was born in La Rochelle, France, on 30 November 1825, into a family of wine and olive oil merchants. [4] The son of Théodore Bouguereau (born 1800) and Marie Bonnin (1804), known as Adeline, William was brought up a Catholic.
The family moved to La Rochelle in 1820, where his interest in natural history was developed while studying the marine fauna and especially the microscopic creatures that he named "foraminiferans". In Paris he became a disciple of the geologist Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (1777–1861) and Georges Cuvier .
Sander Rang was born in Utrecht in 1793. He spent a good part of his life in La Rochelle.In 1816, aged 23, he enlisted on La Méduse a frigate ferrying French officials to the port of Saint-Louis, in Senegal. Ineptly commanded, La Méduse struck the Bank of Arguin off the coast of present-day Mauritania and became a total loss. Sander Rang was ...