Jean-Etienne Bercé was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...

. He wrote Faune Entomologique Française. Lépidoptères. Description de tous les Papillons qui se trouvent en France Paris, Chez Deyrolle Fils, 1867-1878.
This is an eight volume work with 72 plates , 67 coloured by hand. It is divided:Vol. I : Rhopalocères, 251 pp. , planche A et planches 1-18 ; Vol. II : Hétérocères , 270 pp., planche B et planches 19-33 ; Vol. III : Hétérocères Noctuae , Première partie , 256 pp., planche C et planches 34-38 ; Vol. IV : Hétérocères Noctuae , Deuxième partie , 262 pp. et planches 39-46 ; Vol. V : Hétérocères Géometridae , 512 pp., planche D et planches 47-58 ; Vol. VI : Hétérocères Deltoides , Pyralites, 398 pp., planche E et planches 1-9 ; Vol VII : Catalogue Méthodique, 37 pp. He was elected president of the Société entomologique de France

Société entomologique de France

The Société entomologique de France, or French Entomological Society, is devoted to the study of insects. It was founded in 1832.The society was created by eighteen Parisian entomologists on January 31, 1832...

for the year 1868.

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• l'univers des papillons includes a plate