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Etienne Laurent Joseph Hippolyte Boyer de Fonscolombe (22 July 1772 , Aix - 13 February 1853, Aix) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Hymenoptera and pest insects. Year 1772 ( MDCCLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Aix (ɛks or Aix-en-Provence ( Provençal Occitan: Ais de Provença in classical norm or Ais de Prouvènço in Mistralian norm to distinguish Year 1853 ( MDCCCLIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Entomology (from Greek grc ἔντομος entomos, "that which is cut in pieces or engraved/segmented" hence "insect" and grc -λογία Beetles are the group of Insects with the largest number of known Species. Hymenoptera is one of the larger orders of Insects comprising the sawflies, Wasps Bees and Ants The name refers to

Etienne was the son of Emmanuel Honoré Hippolyte de Boyer ( 1744, Aix, Saint-Sauveur-1810) Aix, Saint-Sauveur)an aristocrat who studied agronomy writing on this subject in the Mémoires de l'académie d'Aix. Agronomy is the science and technology of using plants for food fuel feed and fiber He was educated at the Collège de Juilly. The College of Juilly ( French: Collège de Juilly &mdash in modern French collège means High school and not College) is a Catholic Before finishing his education in 1789, "he had attended meetings of the Constituent Assembly in Versailles, with Mirabeau. The National Constituent Assembly (Assemblée nationale constituante was formed from the National Assembly on 9 July 1789, during the first stages of the Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Comte de Mirabeau ( March 9, 1749 &ndash April 2, 1791) was a French writer popular orator and statesman He was later "Locked up as suspect" (1793-94). These were dangerous times his father was also imprisoned in the Terror. Saint justjpg|thumbnail|200px| Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just]] The Reign of Terror' (5 September 1793 &ndash 28 July 1794 or simply The Terror (la Terreur was On his release and marriage he lived with his parents and his mother-in-law at the castle of Montvert [1] with his mother-in-law. Montvert is a commune in the Cantal département in south-central France. With the death of his father (1810), he rented a floor of the hotel of Aix and the couple lived with his mother who found him "Entomologiste très remarquable avec l’intelligence, la bonté, la vertu et le savoir" (a remarkable entomologist with intelligence, kindness, virtue and knowledge). Hippolyte and his brother Marcellin de Fonscolombe, never ceased occupying themselves with the natural sciences "like those of antiquity and on medals". From 1833 Etienne entrusted the management of the Fonscolombe estates to his son-in-law, Adolphe de Saporta and 1848 he sold Montvert when it was left to his wife. He was then able to devote himself entirely to entomology. Following his father he published most of his work in Mémoires de l'académie d'Aix

Much of Fonscolombe's collection is in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris and there are some Apoidea in the Hope Department of Entomology in Oxford. The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle ( MNHN) is the French national Museum of Natural history. The Oxford University Museum of Natural History, sometimes known simply as the Oxford University Museum, is a Museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's

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