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Pierre Jabouille
Pierre Charles Edmond Jabouille (25 November 1875 – 15 May 1947) was a French colonial administrator in Indochina and took an interest in the ornithology of the region, describing numerous new species. Jabouille was born in Saintes, Département Charente-Maritime, son of a judge and later chairman of the cabinet of the prefecture of Calvados department Louis Arthur Jabouille (1842-1887) and Emma Jenny née Lejeune. He went to study law and worked at Barcelonnette. He moved to Indochina in 1905 as an administrative officer living in Lào Cai, Quảng Trị and serving as a mayor of Hanoi. He rose to become a governor. He also took an interest in the birds of the region and made expeditions along with Jean Théodore Delacour between 1923 and 1933, sometimes also Willoughby Prescott Lowe (1872-1949) and collected numerous bird specimens. He also described several new taxa. In 1928, the Paris Academy of Sciences awarded the Tchihatchef prize to Delacour and Jabouille for their work. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saintes, Charente-Maritime
Saintes (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Sénte'') is a commune and historic town in western France, in the Charente-Maritime department of which it is a sub-prefecture, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Its inhabitants are called ''Saintaises'' and ''Saintais''. Saintes is the second-largest city in Charente-Maritime, with inhabitants in 2008. The city's immediate surroundings form the second-most populous metropolitan area in the department, with inhabitants. While a majority of the surrounding landscape consists of fertile, productive fields, a significant minority of the region remains forested, its natural state. In Roman times, Saintes was known as ''Mediolanum Santonum''. During much of its history, the name of the city was spelled Xaintes or Xainctes. Primarily built on the left bank of the Charente, Saintes became the first Roman capital of Aquitaine. Later it was designated as the capital of the province of Saintonge under the Ancien Régime. Following the French Revolution, it bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
