Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes [SEP] date of death
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (10 September 1788 – 5 August 1868), sometimes referred to as Boucher de Perthes, was a French archaeologist and antiquary notable for his discovery, in about 1830, of flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley.
Life.
Born at Rethel, in the Ardennes, he was the eldest son of Jules Armand Guillaume Boucher de Crèvecœur, botanist and customs officer, and of Etienne-Jeanne-Marie de Perthes (whose surname he
-Auge, in the Calvados department
- Crèvecœur-en-Brie, in the Seine-et-Marne department
- Crèvecœur-sur-l'Escaut, in the Nord department
- Crèvecœur-le-Petit, in the Oise department
- Crèvecœur-le-Grand, in the Oise department
People with the surname.
- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735–1813), French-American writer
- Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788–1868), French geologist
- Pascaline Crêvecoeur (