Alexandre Du Sommerard [SEP] place of birth
Alexandre Du Sommerard
Alexandre Du Sommerard (31 August 1779, Bar-sur-Aube – 19 August 1842, Paris) was a French archaeologist and art collector.
Life.
He volunteered for the army at 14 and took part in the French Revolutionary Wars. Returning to civil life, he became attached to the Cour des comptes, at first as a référendaire, then as a conseiller-maître, spending all his leisure time and most of his modest fortune on collecting, classifying and publishing a collection of medieval
Rue Du Sommerard
The rue des Mathurins-Saint-Jacques, now known as the rue Du Sommerard after Alexandre Du Sommerard, is a street in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, in the Sorbonne quarter.