From a very wealthy family, he and his brother, Ernest Grandidier (1833-1912), undertook a voyage around the world.
He donated a large portion of his collection of porcelains to the Louvre Museum in 1894 It is now in the Guimet Museum in Paris.
Ernest Hemingway | Ernest Shackleton | Ernest Borgnine | Ernest Tubb | Ernest Rutherford | Ernest Renan | Ernest Chausson | Ernest Bloch | Ernest Bevin | Ernest | Ernest George | Ernest Gruening | Ernest Dowson | Ernest Bai Koroma | Ernest Thompson Seton | Ernest Hollings | William Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Weimar | John Ernest | Ernest Thayer | Ernest Jones | Ernest Giles | Ernest Gellner | Ernest Fenollosa | Ernest Augustus I of Hanover | Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | Reginald Ernest Moreau | Ernest Torrence | Ernest Nagel | Ernest Marples | Ernest L. Wilkinson |