Auguste Simon Paris (September 1794, in Charleville-Mézières in the

Ardennes The Ardennes (french: Ardenne ; nl, Ardennen ; german: Ardennen; wa, Årdene ; lb, Ardennen ), also known as the Ardennes Forest or Forest of Ardennes, is a region of extensive forests, rough terrain, rolling hills and ridges primarily in Be ...

– 7 September 1869, in Paris) was a French notary and

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. A former notary who retired to live in Épernay, he was interested in

butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

and

Coleoptera Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

and assembled a rich personal collection, sold on his death. He was a Member of the Société entomologique de France from 1834, and its president in 1866.

Sources

*Robert Constantin (1992). Mémorial des coléoptères français. Supplément n° 14 au Bulletin de l’Association des coléoptères de la région parisienne (Acorep) : 92 p. et 5 planches. *Translation from French Wikipedia. French entomologists Presidents of the Société entomologique de France French notaries 1794 births 1869 deaths {{entomologist-stub