From a very wealthy family, he and his brother, Ernest Grandidier (1833-1912), undertook a voyage around the world.
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This work ran to 40 volumes, the final volumes published posthumously by his son Guillaume Grandidier.
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A number of animals are named after him, including the Coquerel's Coua Coua coquereli (Grandidier, 1867), the Coquerel's Sifaka Propithecus coquereli (Milne-Edwards, 1867), and the Coquerel's Giant Mouse Lemur Mirza coquereli (Grandidier, 1867), each of these species endemic to Madagascar.