René Verneau (25 April 1852 – 7 January 1938) was a French palaeoanthropologist. Among his work is the reconstruction of the Grimaldi man from

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, and study of the Guanches. In 2005, the '' Mission laïque française'' college in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the only

francophone French became an international language in the Middle Ages, when the power of the Kingdom of France made it the second international language, alongside Latin. This status continued to grow into the 18th century, by which time French was the l ...

college in the island, adopted his name.

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* "René Verneau." In ''Biographical Dictionary of the History of Paleoanthropology''. Edited by Matthew R. Goodrum. (2016) available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/12eUQV8XIIP0J4Q4hb2GgO5LQFdov_KhB/view

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