André Franc (11 January 1911 – 18 October 2000) was a French biologist and
malacologist
Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...
. He was once curator of
mollusc
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s at the
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
The French National Museum of Natural History ( ; abbr. MNHN) is the national natural history museum of France and a of higher education part of Sorbonne University. The main museum, with four galleries, is located in Paris, France, within the Ja ...
in
Paris
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. Franc died in October 2000 at the age of 89.
BnF: André Franc (1911–2000)
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Publications
*''Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de l' archipel Néo-Calédonien'' (1956)
*''Traité de zoologie 2 - Spongiaires, cténaires, cnidaires'' with Pierre-Paul Grassé
Pierre-Paul Grassé (November 27, 1895 in Périgueux (Dordogne) – July 9, 1985) was a French zoologist, writer of over 300 publications including the influential 52-volume '' Traité de Zoologie''. He was an expert on termites who rejected Neo- ...
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André Franc's profile at the Bibliothèque nationale de France
References
1911 births
2000 deaths
20th-century French zoologists
French malacologists
National Museum of Natural History (France) people
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