Renaud Paulian (28 May 1913, Neuilly-sur-Seine - 16 August 2003, Bordeaux) was a French naturalist . He was a specialist in Coleoptera notably Scarabaeoidea.
Sylvain Auguste de Marseul was a French Roman Catholic priest and entomologist. He taught in the Petit séminaire de Paris from 1833 to 1836. In 1842, founded a college at Laval, then from 1850 to 1853, he taught in Paris. In 1854, he left his college for America where he remained eight months and discovered entomology. The abbot of Marseul was the author of many publications. He founded in 1864 a review devoted to the Coleoptera and named L'Abeille, the Bee. On his death this publication was continued by Ernest Marie Louis Bedel (1849-1922) then by René Gabriel Jeannel (1879-1965). The abbot also studied the history of the beginnings of French entomology in a series of review article in the Bee under the generic title Entomologistes et de leurs écrits, Entomologists and their writings. His collection is conserved in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and his library in the Société entomologique de France.
Gaspard Auguste Brullé was a French entomologist.
Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud was a French naturalist, malacologist and botanist.
Henri Boileau was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. Boileau worked on world fauna, notably Lucanidae. His collection is conserved by the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Boileau was a member of the Société entomologique de France.
Paul Mabille was a French naturalist mainly interested in Lepidoptera and botany.
Ferdinand Le Cerf was a French entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.
IONIS Education Group is a private, for-profit, higher education group in France. It was created in 1980 and by 2015 had more than 20,000 students and 62,000 alumni. There are 25 further education colleges in the group.
Auguste Eugène Méquignon, was a French entomologist. He specialised in Coleoptera, especially Staphyliniformia and Cucujoidea.
Paul Biva was a French painter. His paintings, both Realist, Naturalist in effect, principally represented intricate landscape paintings or elaborate flower settings, much as the work of his older brother, the artist Henri Biva (1848–1929). Paul Biva was a distinguished member of National Horticultural Society of France from 1898 until his untimely death two years later.
Eugène Boullet full name Eugène Anatole Auguste Victor Boullet was a French naturalist, entomologist and collector.
Gustave Arthur Poujade was a French entomologist interested in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. He was an honorary preparator in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. The museum holds his collections. He described new species of Lepidoptera in Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris and Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France. He was especially interested in the butterflies and moths of Tibet. Gustave Poujade was a Member of Société entomologique de France.
Hélène Vitivilia Leune, also known by the pen name Lène Candilly, was a French writer of Greek origin, traveler, war correspondent, and decorated Red Cross nurse.
Adolphe Hercule de Graslin was a French entomologist.
Pierre Chrétien was a French entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He was a member of Société entomologique de France. Trifurcula chretieniZ. & A. Lastuvka & van Nieukerken, 2013 is "named in honour of Pierre Chrétien (1846–1934), who discovered nepticulid mines on Bupleurum, including those on Bupleurum rigidum, and the first author to describe a number of Mediterranean species that are now placed in Trifurcula (Glaucolepis)." His collection is held by National Museum of Natural History in Paris.
Fernand Henri Fabien Courby was a French archaeologist and Hellenist, a specialist of ancient Greece, a member of the French School at Athens, and professor at the Faculté des lettres of the University of Lyon.
Edouard Perris full name Jean-Pierre Omer Anne Edouard Perris was a French explorer and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and to a lesser extent Diptera and other orders. He was Chef de division à la préfecture des Landes. Perris was a Member of Société Entomologique de France. His collection is held by École nationale supérieure agronomique de Montpellier excepting Cicindelidae, Carabini und Lebiini which are held by Museum Dax, Landes.
Henri Hitier was a French agronomist.
Fernand Faure was a French economist and politician. He held office as a deputy from 1885 to 1889, then despite repeated attempts at reelection was out of office until becoming a Senator in 1924. During the interim period he taught and published various books and articles on economics and statistics.
Alan Marshall is a British historian who works in France. He specialised in the history of printing, in particular that of phototypesetting.
Denis Marius Toudoire was a French architect. In particular, he built stations for the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM), including the main stations: Paris Lyon to Paris, Bordeaux-Saint-Jean and Toulouse-Matabiau. He also realized the Grande Poste d'Alger.