Aurignac is best known for the 1860 discovery, by Édouard Lartet, of prehistoric remains in nearby caves, at the Abri préhistorique d'Aurignac, which led to the definition of the Aurignacian culture.
In his work in the Périgord district Lartet had the financial and personal help of Henry Christy.
Édouard Manet | Édouard Vuillard | Édouard Daladier | Jules Edouard Roiné | Édouard-Louis Pacaud | Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay | Édouard Lalo | Édouard Detaille | Édouard Stephan | Edouard Roditi | Édouard Michelin | Édouard Lucas | Édouard Lock | Édouard Lartet | Edouard Lanteri | Édouard Frère | Édouard Cortès | Édouard Carmignac | Édouard Balladur | Edouard A. Stackpole | Ange Edouard Poungui | Portrait of Louis de Bussy d'Amboise by Édouard Pingret | Pierre Édouard Blondin | Louis Lartet | ''Le Tennis'', huile sur toile d'Édouard Vuillard, 1907 | Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet | Isidore-Édouard-Candide Masson | George-Édouard Desbarats | Edouard Verreaux | Edouard Vermeulen |
Later on, limbs found in strata located at Sansan in the department of Gers, Southwestern France, were first described as Macrotherium by Édouard Lartet in 1837.