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Encyclopedia > Brives

Brives is the name or part of the name of several France:

  • Brives-Charensac, in the Haute-Loire département
  • 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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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
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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