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DESNOYERS, JULES See also:PIERRE See also:FRANCOIS STANISLAS (1800-1887) , See also:French geologist and archaeologist, was See also:born at Nogent-le-See also:Rotrou, in the See also:department of See also:Eure-et-Loir, on the 8th of See also:October 1800. Becoming interested in See also:geology at an See also:early See also:age, he was one of the founders of the Societe Geologique de See also:France in 183o. In 1834 he was appointed librarian of the Museum of Natural See also:History in See also:Paris. His contributions to See also:geological See also:science comprise See also:memoirs on the See also:Jurassic, Cretaceous and See also:Tertiary Strata of the Paris See also:Basin and of See also:Northern France, and other papers See also:relating to the antiquity of See also:man, and to the question of his co-existence with See also:extinct See also:mammalia. His See also:separate books were Sur la Craie et sur See also:les terrains tertiaires du Cotentin (1825), Recherches geologiques et historiques sur les cavernes (1845). He died in 1887.

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