Émile Deyrolle (1838–1917) was a French

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and natural history dealer in

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. The business was originally owned by his naturalist grandfather, Jean-Baptiste Deyrolle who opened his shop in 1831 at 23, Rue de la Monnaie. Émile’s father Achille Deyrolle ran the business for many years. Émile took over in 1866. The address from 1881 (and now) was (and is) 46, Rue du Bac, the former home of Jacques Samuel Bernhart. Deyrolle specialized in natural history publications and specimens

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, botanical specimens, shells,

, microscopic specimens and

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Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot Jacques Marie François Bigot (14 October 1818 – 14 April 1893) was a French naturalist and entomologist most noted for his studies of Diptera. He was one of two sons of physician Jacques Bigot (1757–1842) and Marie Françoise Euphrosine (n� ...

1868 ''Guide de l'amateur d'insectes : comprenant les généralités sur leur division en ordres, l'indication des utensiles et les meilleurs procédés pour leur faire la chasse, les époques et les conditions'' Société entomologique de France.Edition: 3e éd., rev., cor. et augm. Paris :chez Deyroll
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Addenda includes price lists of equipment and books supplied by Deyrolles et fils *Émile Deyrolle (c.1892) ''Oiseaux: avec 132 figures dans le texte et 27 planches en couleur.'' (Birds: with 132 figures and 27 plates in color) En Histoire Naturelle de la France. 3d Partie. Paris: par Deyrolle, É., Naturalist
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with Paul Groult ''Le Naturaliste journal des échanges et des nouvelles''.Paris :Bureaux à Paris,1879–1910.
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Labels 1838 births 1917 deaths French naturalists 19th-century French botanists French lepidopterists Date of birth missing Date of death missing 19th-century French zoologists 20th-century French zoologists 20th-century French botanists {{France-scientist-stub