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Pierre André Latreille - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (346 words) |
 | Latreille was born into a humble family of Brives-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze, and in 1778 entered the college Lemoine in Paris. |
| He was ordained a priest in 1786 and then went back to Brives, where he spent all of his free time studying insects. |
| In 1798 he was given the task of arranging the entomological collection at the recently organized Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris ; in 1814 he became a member of the French Academy of Sciences (succeeding G. |
| Brives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (103 words) |
| Brives is the name or part of the name of several communes in France : |
| It can also be a misspelling of "Brive", which was until 1919 the name of Brive-la-Gaillarde, in the Corrèze département |
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