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2 unusual facts about Edme-Louis Daubenton


Edme-Louis Daubenton

Edmé-Louis Daubenton's tombstone is in the church of Saint-Pierre in Avon.

Jean-Nicolas Céré

He maintained correspondence with other horticulturists and naturalists including Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Edme-Louis Daubenton, André Thouin, Jacques Labillardière and others, sending briefs to the Royal Agricultural Society of the Généralité de Paris, which awarded him in 1788 with a gold medal.


Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Her father, the haberdasher Claude-Edme Labille, owned a shop named 'A La Toilette' situated in the Rue neuve des Petits Champs in the parish of Saint-Eustache.

Edme Jeaurat

Edme Jeaurat (1688–1738) was a French engraver from Vermenton, near Auxerre.

Edme Quenedey des Ricets

Edme Quenedey des Ricets (sometimes Edmé Quenedey) (born Riceys-le-Haut, December 17, 1756 - died Paris, February 16, 1830) was a French painter and engraver, known most especially for his miniatures.

Edme-François Gersaint

He began his career in 1718, purchasing the stock-in-trade and inheriting the clientele of a picture dealer on the Petit Pont, Antoine Dieu Au Grand Monarque, with a modest capital.

Edmé-Martin Vandermaesen

With 4,000 men and 500 horses, Vandermaesen battled Mina's guerillas, capturing his two artillery pieces.

He took part in the Battle of Wissembourg and in engagements in Haguenau, Vandenheim and Landau.

The French Army crossed the Rhine again but was soon recalled after peace talks occurred in Leoben.

Marchand-mercier

Edme-François Gersaint, for whom Watteau painted L'Enseigne de Gersaint as a shop sign had premises, following an old tradition, in a house on the Pont Notre-Dame.

N. O. Nelson

N.O. Nelson founded the village of Leclaire in 1890, naming it after Edme-Jean Leclaire, who had inaugurated employee profit sharing in France.

Square des Épinettes

Two sculptures in the garden represent famous personalities of the area : Maria Deraismes, a feminist, and Jean Leclaire, an entrepreneur.


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