Robert DidierRobert Didier (4 February 1885, Porte sur Saône , Haute-Saône

Haute-Saône

Haute-Saône is a French department of the Franche-Comté région, named after the Saône River.- History :The department was created in the early years of the French Revolution through the application of a law dated 22 December 1789, from part of the former province of Franche-Comté...

- 10 May 1977, Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

 was a French

French people

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 surgeon

Surgeon

In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...

, zoologist and entomologist.

Robert Didier was an Associé of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle is the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.- History :The museum was formally founded on 10 June 1793, during the French Revolution...

 in Paris
where his friend Eugène Louis Bouvier

Eugène Louis Bouvier

Eugène Louis Bouvier was a French entomologist and carcinologist. Bouvier was a professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle...

 was Director of the Entomology Laboratory.
He worked on mammals, birds and Lucanidae.

He wrote (1953). Catalogue illustré des lucanides du globe in Encyclopédie Entomologique (series A 27: 1-223) with another close friend Eugene Seguy

Eugène Séguy

Eugène Séguy was a French entomologist who specialised in Diptera. He held a chair of entomology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris from 1956 -1960.Portraits and Number 7, bottom row.-Works:...

.

His other publications include Les Mammifères de France(1935 with Paul Rode) and
L' art de la taxidermie au XXe siècle recueil de technique pratique de taxidermie pour naturalistes, professionnels, amateurs et voyageurs1974, Lechevalier (Paris) with the museum’s senior taxidermist Boudarel.