Jeanne Villepreux-Power

Jeanne Villepreux-Power is a French Naturaliste , born the 5 Vendémiaire of Year III (September 25th 1794) with Juillac and deceased in this same city in 1871.

First born of the four children of Pierre Villepreux who occupies several trades which that of shoe-maker and guard-pastoral, it leaves to Paris at eighteen years when it works for a dressmaker in sight. It becomes famous thanks to a dress of princely marriage which it carries out partly. It meets on this occasion noble English, James Power, who marries it in 1818 with Messine. The couple leaves food in Sicily. Jeanne devotes herself then to the study and in particular to the Natural history of the island. She makes appear Itinerario della Sicilia riguardante tutt' I rami di storia naturale E parecchi di antichità che essa contains (Metz-native, 1839) and Guida per Sicilia (Naples, 1842, republished in 1995).

It holds its fame to have been the first to have created and used Aquarium S for the study of the marine world. It in particular makes appear Observations and experiments physical on several marine animals and terrestrial . Jeanne is also interested in the Coquillage S current or fossil, and in particular in the argonaute argo. It is it which solves a scientific question outstanding at its time: the argonaute secretes it its shell or he with the manner of a Bernard-l'ermite lives it. It is for better studying them than it builds the cages “in Power” which will become later the aquariums. Thanks to these observations, it can also determine the mode of reproduction of the species which presents large a sexual Dimorphisme. Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) regarded it as the mother of the Aquariophilie:

“Goal to Mrs Jeannette Power (born from Villepreux), according to the testimony off professor Carmelo Maravigna in the Giornale Letterario dell' Accademia Gioenia di Catania (December 1834), ought to Be attributed, yew to any one individual, the invention and systematic application off the receptacles now called Aquaria to the study off marinades, and principally off molluscous animals. ”

It is the first woman member of the Academy of Science of Catane. It is also corresponding zoological Société of London and sixteen others learned societies. Among its publications, it is necessary to quote very a scholar guides of Sicily, Guida per Sicilia , where it makes an inventory of the richnesses of the island. Its name “Villepreux-Power” was given by the international astronomical Union in 1997 to one of the large craters of the planet Venus (coordinated 22° S/210° E). Its collections disappear at sea with the boat which transported them to London in 1838. The Power couple settles in Paris in 1842.

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Short biography of Claude Arnal

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