• Boitard, French engraver and designer Louise Boitard (1907–2001), French resistance member Pierre Boitard (1787–1857), French botanist and geologist This...
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  • Pierre Boitard (27 April 1787 Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire – 25 August 1859) was a French botanist and geologist. As well as describing and classifying the Tasmanian...
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    Sarcophilus harrisii ("Harris's flesh-lover") by French naturalist Pierre Boitard in 1841. A later revision of the devil's taxonomy, published in 1987...
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    araucanus. In 1829, Johann Baptist Fischer reassigned the species to Lama. Pierre Boitard proposed the alternate name Lama chilihueque in 1841. There are two...
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    les hommes (Paris before Men) by the French botanist and geologist Pierre Boitard, published posthumously. In this story, the protagonist is transported...
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  • introduced for the first time in literature by French botanist and geologist Pierre Boitard in his popular 1861 book Paris avant les hommes (Paris before Men),...
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    1842 was a spotted cat skin from Central America. F. pseudopardalis by Pierre Boitard in 1845 was an ocelot kept in the Jardin des plantes. F. melanura by...
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    Mâcon. Claude-Philibert Barthelot de Rambuteau (1781–1869), politician Pierre Boitard (1789–1859), botanist and geologist Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869)...
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    though the specimen was lost at sea in shipwreck. French naturalist Pierre Boitard described Isoodon musei in 1841, both are now classified as P. nasuta...
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    The Story of Ab (1897) by Stanley Waterloo Paris Before Man (1861) by Pierre Boitard The Scorpion God (1971) (two of its three short stories are set in prehistory)...
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