David Carcassonne was a French physician. He was born at Remoulins

Remoulins

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, a small town in the Gard

Gard

Gard is a département located in southern France in the Languedoc-Roussillon region.The department is named after the River Gard, although the formerly Occitan name of the River Gard, Gardon, has been replacing the traditional French name in recent decades, even among French speakers.- History...

 department, the son of a purveyor to the army of Napoleon

Napoleon I of France

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 I. Having joined the Grande Armée as military surgeon at twenty-three years of age, he followed the emperor to Russia in 1812, and was made a prisoner there. On his return to Nîmes, where his parents had settled, Carcassonne gave up his practise and became a carpet-manufacturer. He was a member of the Municipal Council of Nîmes, under King Louis-Philippe

Louis-Philippe of France

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 (1837-48). Carcassonne was the author of a work entitled Essai Historique sur la Médecine des Hébreux Anciens et Modernes (Montpellier-Nîmes, 1815).

His son Léon

Léon Carcassonne

Léon Carcassonne was a French physician, municipal councilor, and member of the Academy of Nîmes, the son of David Carcassonne...

was also a French physician and municipal councilor.