Augustin Marie Morvan (7 February 1819 in

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– 20 March 1897 in

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) was a French

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, and

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. He is best known for treating the first recorded case of the eponymous

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, a rare neurological disorder marked by acute

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. Morvan served as a deputy to the French

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that inaugurated the Third Republic in 1871. In

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, where he began his medical studies, the Rue Augustin Morvan and the Hôpital Augustin Morvan are named after him.

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