Maurice Bourlon

Maurice Bourlon is an officer and prehistorian French born with Bourges in 1875 and died with Higny in 1914.

Biography

Born in Bourges in 1875, of a father owner, Maurice Bourlon engages in the army in 1894. In 1897 with Cosne, it appears an excellent sergeant furrier. After the school of officers of Saint-Maixent, there are promoted lieutenant with 131ème R.I in 1901, Orleans and there will remain 10 years.

It Marie with Marmagne, close to Bourges, in the Expensive, where the two families live, in 1903, but divorce a few years later. After Orleans, it is affected at the height of Beautiful Spine with Charny-on-Meuse as captain in a unit of hunters to foot, then with Verdun right before the war.

He dies in the combat of Higny in Meurthe-et-Moselle, on August 21st, 1914 and receives the following quotation: After having removed a wood with the head of its company which it did not cease involving for its example and its bravery, fell mortally struck while throwing it still ahead.

Obituary

" The Bourlon captain was a remarkable prehistorian. Impassioned for prehistory, it had come to the Eyzies, a few years ago to ask assistance, council and direction with Peyrony. It had been put at the excavations with a heat without equal. With the Moustier, with Laugerie-Low, in the valley of Beune, it made very interesting excavations. It had the merit to recognize well and show the existence of the Magdalénien more the Net in Orléanais."

" It published in our Review of excellent reports with Bouyssonnie on various industrial forms of the Aurignacien and the Moustérien (for example a very interesting study on the ducted Grattoir S). It published also an extremely clever work on the cutting up of flint by cutting, at the time moustérienne."

" With Laugerie-Low, I remember it to have seen, all at the bottom of the shelter, excavating in the darkness, the feet in water, and examining the remains heaps left by the former diggers. It found there a quantity of curious tools and especially three beautiful engravings on calcareous plate. One especially is an admirable representation of a bison."

" Bourlon was full with enthusiasm, full with activity. As soon as it had a few moments of freedom, it arrived to the Dordogne and started to excavate without respite. It was merry and charming friend, a prehistorian of heart and race, at the same time expert expert and good theorist. It is a real loss for French prehistory. We address the last to him and very saddened adieu."

Louis Capitan, Bulletin of the French Prehistoric Company, 1915, pp. 137-138.

Publications

“flint gem cuttings of Meusnes (Loir-et-Cher)”, Mém. Plowshare of the Antique dealers of the Center , T. XXX, 1906.
“the Magdalénien in Loiret”, Re-examined prehistoric , 1906.
“Rollers with étoilures”. Bulletin of the Prehistoric Company of France , T. III, n° March 3rd, th and th 1906.
“industry moustérienne in Moustier”, CIAAP , 1906.
“Answer to Baudou”, BSPF , 1906.
“Persistence of the cutter after the appearance of the polished axe”, BSPF , 1906.
“quaternary éolithes”, BSPF , 1906.
“a bone used présolutréen”, BSPF , 1906.
“Presentation of éolithes reutéliens of Elouges and Hornu Wasmes (Belgium)”, BSPF , 1907.
“Cutting up of the flint kidneys in parallel sections”, BSPF , 1907.
“Presentation of a shoe in bone of Neuchâtel (Swiss)”, BSPF , 1907.
“Observations on the technique”, Re-examined prehistoric , 1908.
“the industry of the hearths higher than Moustier”, Re-examined prehistoric , 1910.
“Test of classification of the gravers, their modes of reviving”, Re-examined Anthropological , 1911.
“the prehistoric site of Belon oyster close Vierzon (Expensive)”, Mém. Ant plowshare. center , T. XXXIV, 1911.
headaches of Orléanais, the bursting of flint by fire , Paris, 1911.
“Industries of the levels means and inferior of the terrace of the large shelter in Moustier”, Re-examined prehistoric , 1911.
“careened Scrapers, planes and scrapers nucléiformes. Anthropological test of classification of the scrapers”, Re-examined , 1912 (with A. Bouyssonie).
“Prehistoric site of Masnaigre, Anthropological commune of Marquay (the Dordogne)”, Re-examined , July 1913.
“Industry of the alluvia of the average basin of the Loire”, Mém. Plowshare Antique dealers. center , T. XXXVI, 1913.

Sources

Abbot Andre Nouel: State of the prehistoric studies in the department of Loiret, Orleans, 1946, pp. 43-46.

prehistorians of Orléanais before work of the abbot Nouel , conference given by Guy Richard to the Natural history museum of the natural science of Orleans on April 27th, 2004 within the framework of the centenary of the French Prehistoric Company.

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