François Péron

See also: Péron (homonymy)

François Péron is a Naturaliste and an exploring French, born the August 22nd 1775 with Cérilly and dead the December 14th 1810 in this same city.

It engages in the armies of the Republic in 1792 and is wounded with Kaiserslautern. Prisoner with Magdeburg, it starts to study the Natural history.

In 1794, it is reformed because of its wound (it lost the right eye). It starts to study the Médecine with Paris thanks to a purse when a violent one sorrow decides it to leave the France.

Jussieu obtains to him a place of zoologist in the forwarding towards the Southern Lands carried out by the captain Nicolas Baudin (1754-1803) until in News-Holland on board the vessels '' the Geographer '' and '' the Naturalist ''.

During this voyage, he becomes the friend of Jean-Baptiste Bory of Saint-Vincent, which presents it as being equipped with an incomparable heart in its Voyage in the four principal islands of the seas of Africa . With Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (1778-1846), also member of forwarding, it constitutes an immense collection of more than 100.000 specimens including 2.500 of new species.

October 14th, 1805, he is elected corresponding member of the institute, classifies anatomy and zoology.

He is the author of Observations on anthropology (1800), and certain parts of the Voyage of discovered with the Southern Lands, during the years 1800,1801,1802,1803 and 1804 .

He dies of the Tuberculose.

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