Guillaume Michel Jerome Meiffren Laugier, baron de Chartrouse
Guillaume Michel Jerome Meiffren de Laugier, baron de Chartrouse (1772-1843)
Mayor of Arles (1824-1830), deputy and general adviser (1829-1834), restorer of the Roman monuments of the town of Arles, botanist and ornithologist.
Biography
Guillaume, Michel, Jerome, Meiffren de Laugier, known as Guillaume de Chartrouse, were born with Arles in 1772.During the Revolution, it is engaged in the regiment of Allobroges. However it is before a whole landowner. He deals thus of botany and ornithology in his ground of Chartrouse set up in baronnie in 1811 and also has, in the Camargue, the field of Large Badon, and that of Large Paty.
Anobli by Napoleon i under the name of baron de Chartrouse, it adopts the Restauration in 1814 - 1815.
The Baron de Chartrouse is mayor of the town of Arles of 1824 with 1830 like deputy and general adviser of 1829 with 1834. At the time of its mandate of mayor, it appears an administrator conscious of the importance of the municipal historical heritage. He undertakes the clearing of the amphitheater as of 1824 and of the ancient Théâtre, the organization of the museums and the library and the first bases of the municipal theater. One also owes him of important work of equipment: program road (roads of Salon and Nimes) and deepening of the channel of Arles with Bouc to cleanse the valley of the the Rhone on its left bank.
It deserves to be called the restorer of the ancient monuments , so much its action in the clearing of the ancient monuments was determining. It is for the example him which decides from 1822 to make classify and excavate the vestiges of the Theater of Arles where one had discovered famous the Venus of Arles today in Louvre.
It makes appear, with Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858), his Nouveau Collection of colored Boards of Birds of 1820 with 1839. This work of large size, rare and expensive, described approximately eight hundred species of birds by six hundred boards. It is considered that it is Temminck, director of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie of Leyde, the author of the scientific part of the work and the new species which are described there are allotted to him.
He dies in 1843 in his birthplace.
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