Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune

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Alphonse Amédée Trémeau de Rochebrune is a Botaniste and a zoologist French, born the September 18th 1836 with Saint-Savin and dead the April 23rd 1912 with Paris.

Wire of a conservative of the Natural history museum of Angouleme, he becomes doctor-soldier and obtains the rank of assistant medical officer in 1870. After obtaining its title of doctor in 1874, it leaves in Africa to Saint-Louis.

In 1878, it enters to the national Muséum of natural history as preparer the laboratory of Anthropologie, then replaces Victor Bertin (1849-1880), assistance-naturalist of the laboratory of the Mollusque S, the worms and the Zoophyte S, after the death of this one. It occupies this function until its departure with the retirement in 1911. It tackles, in these a hundred and fifty publications, the most varied subjects: geology with the Paleontology, botany with the Malacology. One can in particular quote his Catalog of the plants phanérogames which grow spontaneously in the department of Charente (1860) that it carries out with Alexandre Savatier (1824-1886).

Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune discovered for the first time a paleolithic lamp in 1854, with the Pulpit with Calvin (Charente).

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Benoit Dayrat (2003). Botanists and Flora of France, three centuries of discoveries. scientists Publication of the national Natural history museum of natural history: 690 p.
Philippe Jaussaud & Edouard R. Brygoo (2004). Of the Garden to the Natural history museum in 516 biographies . National natural history museum of natural history of Paris: 630 p.

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