Charles Négrier
Charles Négrier (July 14, 1792 in Angers – January 31, 1862 in Angers), was a French medical doctor. He began his career in the military and later became a corresponding member of the Académie nationale de médecine and of the Societies of Angers and Nantes. He is, with Félix Archimède Pouchet, one of the first two researchers to have scientifically described the mechanism of ovulation in the human species and in other mammals. Biography Charles Négrier, son of the doctor Jacques Négrier, was born in Angers on July 14, 1792. He began in 1810 to study medicine in Paris when he was called up for military service during the Napoleonic Wars and for five years practiced medicine in the French Imperial Army (1803–1815), Imperial army. At the age of 19 he received a third class surgeon's commission at the hospitals of Belle Île, Belle-Île-en-Mer. After six months, he passed with the same rank to the Saintonge Regiment, 82e Regiment of Infantry, which was then garrisoned in P ...
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