Abel Hureau de Villeneuve (1833 – 2 June 1898) was an aeronautical experimenter, and ran a major French aeronautical society and journal in the late nineteenth century. He was also a

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activist.

Aviation research

In the 1870s, Dr. Hureau de Villeneuve was the permanent secretary-general of the Aerial Navigation Society ("Société de Navigation Aérienne") and editor of its journal ''L'Aéronaute''. He worked with aeronautical experimenters

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and

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. Hureau de Villeneuve had promoted the use of flapping wings ("

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designs") with perhaps 300 experimental models for 25 years since the 1860s, according to

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, who discussed an 1872 model in particular.

Vegetarianism

In 1880, Hureau de Villeneuve founded the Vegetarian Society of Paris () and became its president. He became a vegetarian because he suffered from

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. After some years of vegetarian dieting his health completely recovered. Hureau de Villeneuve was a

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vegetarian, he consumed dairy and eggs.

Lexicography

His name is generally alphabetized under "Villeneuve, Abel Hureau de" but at other times it is written as if his last name were "de Villeneuve" or "Hureau de Villeneuve"

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Villeneuve, Abel Hureau de 1833 births 1898 deaths 19th-century French journalists 19th-century French male writers Aviation pioneers French balloonists French vegetarianism activists