Ambroise Tardieu
Ambroise Tardieu (April 3rd 1840 with Clermont-Ferrand - March 1912 idem) is a historiographer of Auvergne, and archeologist.
It was born with Clermont-Ferrand, street Saint-Genoa, with the n°3 (currently n°38), on April 3rd, 1840. Wire of:
- Charles Tardieu (born with Messeix), mining engineer, bachelor of law, distinguished farmer,
- and of Marie Peyronnet (of the one of the most former families of the mountains of Auvergne).
After brilliant studies, started with Clermont and finished in Paris, it is devoted, as of the 17 years age, to the history of Auvergne. It published in very nearly 40 volumes, left its courageous and ceaseless work, during forty years of hard labor.
It founded with Herment, where his/her mother had a vast property in which it lived of 1858 to 1894, a museum which gathered tables, old engravings (more than 5000), old pieces of furniture, various curiosities, and a library of 10.000 volumes (art, history, archeology). After the death of his mother in 1895, it resided the winters at Algiers and the summers with Royat.
In 1882, he discovered and excavated with Herment the Gallo-Roman city of Beauclair , old station of the Roman way of Augustonemetum in Limoges (Lemovicum), which made great noise in the world of the scholars, even abroad.
In 1895, it organized celebrates it historical cavalcade of the crusades with Clermont, of which all the French and foreign press was occupied.
In 1895, he was delegated to Clermont with the congress archeology by the Archaeological Institute of Germany and the Royal Academy of History of Madrid.
He dies in March 1912, 3 rue de la Pyramide in Clermont-Ferrand.
Titles
Member of the archaeological Institute of Germany, the royal Academy of Madrid, the Academies of Clermont-Ferrand, Marseilles, Toulouse, Rouen, Nancy, Hippone. Officer and Knight of various orders.
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