- 12 December 1949, Crozant

Crozant

Crozant is a commune in the Creuse department in the Limousin region in France.-Geography:A tourism and farming village situated some northeast of Guéret, on the D72 and by the banks of the river Creuse, the boundary with the department of Indre....

) was a French

France

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 entomologist.

The Alluaud family had owned porcelain factories since the 18th century. His great grandfather had been chairman of the and his grandfather, François Alluaud (1778–1866), was a porcelain manufacturer, archaeologist, and geologist

Geologist

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. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century...

 (1796–1875) taught painting to Charles and his brother Eugene.

Charles left Limoges for Paris to supplement his studies but was an undisciplined pupil. The death of his parents enabled him to become an explorer. From 1887 to 1930, he went on many journeys in Africa

Africa

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 (Ivory Coast, Madagascar

Madagascar

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, Kilimanjaro, Tunisia

Tunisia

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, Morocco

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

, Sudan

Sudan

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, the Sahara

Sahara

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, Niger

Niger

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), the Canary Islands

Canary Islands

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, Seychelles

Seychelles

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 and Mascarene Islands

Mascarene Islands

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. He assembled an important collections of insects during his voyages, later giving these to the entomology department of the . He was the author of 165 entomological publications. He was president of the in 1899 and 1914.

Emmanuel Drake del Castillo

Emmanuel Drake del Castillo

Emmanuel Drake del Castillo was a French botanist.He was born at Paris and studied with Louis Édouard Bureau at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle...

 (1855–1904) dedicated the genus Alluaudia

Alluaudia

Alluaudia is a genus of six species of flowering plants endemic to Madagascar, where they form an important component of the Madagascar spiny forests. They are spiny succulent shrubs and trees from 2–20 m tall, with leaves that are deciduous in the long dry season...

to him.

Selected works

• Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel
  René Jeannel
  René Jeannel was a French entomologist. He was director of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle from 1945-1951. Jeanell's most important work was on the insect fauna of caves in the Pyrenees, France and in the Carpathians, Romania. He also worked in Africa...
  
  en Afrique Orientale (1911–1912). Résultats scientifiques, 1-6. (1913–1919).