BROCHANT DE VILLIERS, ANDRE JEAN FRANCCOIS MARIE (1772-1840)

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BROCHANT DE VILLIERS, ANDRE JEAN FRANCCOIS MARIE (1772-1840) , French mineralogist and geologist, was born at Villiers, near Nantes, on the 6th of August 1772. After studying at the Ecole Polytechnique, he was in 1794 the first

pupil

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

admitted to the Ecole des Mines. In 1804 he was appointed professor of

geology

GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

and

mineralogy

MINERALOGY

in the Ecole des Mines, which had been temporarily transferred to Pezay in Savoy, and he returned with the school to Paris in 1815. Later on he became inspector general of mines and a member of the

Academy

ACADEMY,
GREEK
- GREEK
- GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND
ACADEMY, ROYAL

of Sciences. He investigated the transition strata of the Tarantaise, wrote on the position of the granite rocks of Mont

Blanc

BLANC, (JEAN JOSEPH CHARLES) LOUIS (1811-1882)
BLANC, MONT

, and on the lead minerals of

Derbyshire

DERBYSHIRE

and

Cumberland

. He was charged with the superintendence of the construction of the

geological

GEOLOGICAL

map of France, undertaken by his pupils Dufrenoy and Elie de Beaumont. He died in Paris on the 16th of May 1840. His publications include Traite elementaire de mineralogie (2 vols., 18011802; 2nd ed., 18c8), and Traite abrege de cristallographie (Paris, 1818).

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