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3 unusual facts about Georges Brossard


Georges Brossard

It was the boy's dream to catch a mythical Blue Morpho butterfly, which Georges goes to great lengths to find in the vast jungles, even putting his and the boy's lives in danger.

In 1989, after having collected over 250,000 specimens, he solicited the then mayor of Montreal, Jean Doré, to open an insectarium.

In 2004, he was the subject of the fiction film Le Papillon Bleu, The Blue Butterfly (film), directed by Léa Pool, based on an event in Brossard's life which occurred in 1987.



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