Joseph Vallot - Gabrielle Vallot et Madeleine Vallot

Gabrielle Vallot (born Claire-Marie-Gabrielle Pérou on November 18, 1856 in Paris - February 21, 1933 in ParisActe de décès, n°472, p. 14) was a

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climber, mountaineer, and speleologist. She married scientist and mountaineer

Joseph Vallot Joseph Vallot (16 February 1854 – 11 April 1925) was a French scientist, astronomer, botanist, geographer, Cartography, cartographer and Mountaineering, alpinist and "one of the founding fathers of scientific research on Mont Blanc". He is kno ...

in 1880, and they climbed

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together.

Biography

Claire-Marie-Gabrielle Pérou was born on November 18, 1856 in Paris's former 2nd arrondissement. She would be one of the first women to have published writings on speleology, following excursions in her region, near

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. Her husband, the speleologist Joseph Vallot helped her with the realization of the plans and

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. The couple had a daughter, Madeleine Vallot, who went on to become a renowned mountaineer in her own right, holding several records. Pérou divorced Vallot in 1912. She died in her home located at 22 rue de Chazelles in Paris's

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on February 21, 1933.

Bibliography

*"Mes ascensions" 'My Ascensions'' ''Annuaire du Club alpin français'' earbook of the French Alpine Club 1887, pp. 41–47. *"Grottes et abîmes," 'Caves and Abysses''Annuaire du Club alpin français, 1889, pp. 145–69.
*"Les grandes figures disparues de la spéléologie française", Spelunca (Spécial Centenaire de la Spéléologie), no. 31, juillet-septembre 1988, p. 84

References

1856 births 1933 deaths Sportspeople from Paris French speleologists French mountain climbers French women geologists French female mountain climbers {{Climbing-bio-stub