Espelette ( French pronunciation: [ɛspəlɛt] ; Basque : Ezpeleta ; Occitan : Espeleta ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France . It lies in the traditional Basque province of Labourd .
12-669: Armand David , CM (7 September 1826, Espelette – 10 November 1900, Paris ) was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist from the French Basque Country . Several species , such as Père David's deer , are named after him — Père David being French for Father David. Born in Espelette near Bayonne , in the north of Basque Country , in Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France , he entered
24-696: Is attractive, with traditional Labourd houses and a castle. The protected sixteenth-century church, Saint-Etienne, has a Baroque altarpiece, and its graveyard has many traditional Basque discoidal tombstones . Espelette is a charming town located in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France. It nestles near the Spanish border in the Navarre region of Spain. It sits approximately 122.4 kilometers from
36-624: The Congregation of the Mission in 1848, having already displayed great fondness for the natural sciences. Ordained in 1851, he was in 1862 sent to Peking , where he began a collection of material for a museum of natural history , mainly zoological , but in which botany , geology , and palaeontology were also well represented. At the request of the French government, important specimens from his collection were sent to Paris and aroused
48-637: The giant panda in Baoxing County and Père David's deer . The latter had disappeared with the exception of a few preserved in the gardens of the emperor of China, but David succeeded in securing a specimen and sent it to Europe. David also sent back the first emerald ash borer specimen. In the midst of his work as a naturalist Father David did not neglect his missionary labours, and was noted for his careful devotion to his religious duties and for his obedience to every detail of his order's rules. The plants Buddleja davidii and Ulmus davidiana ,
60-750: The station aquicole in Boulogne-sur-Mer. He was a member of the Société géologique de France . In 1893 Philippe Thomas published the palaeontological results of the Tunisian Scientific Exploration Mission (1885–1886) in six installments plus an atlas, including the work of Victor-Auguste Gauthier ( sea urchins ), Arnould Locard ( Mollusca ), Auguste Péron ( Brachiopods , Bryozoa and Pentacrinitess ) and Henri Émile Sauvage ( fish ). The plesiosaurid species Lusonectes sauvagei commemorates his name, as do
72-500: The David Elm, were named for him, and also Lilium davidii . The fish Sarcocheilichthys davidi was named in his honor by Henri Émile Sauvage in 1878, because Père David collected the type specimen. Père David's deer ( Elaphurus davidianus ) was likewise named after him by Alphonse Milne-Edwards . Père David's Rat Snake ( Elaphe davidi ) was named in his honor by Henri Émile Sauvage in 1884. Espelette The town
84-480: The capital of Pau, and is around 22 kilometers from Bayonne, a significant subprefecture in the region. Notably, Espelette is part of a vibrant community living area of Cambo-les-Bains, placing it in the heart of a dynamic and culturally rich region. Espelette is known for its dried red peppers , used whole or ground to a hot powder, used in the production of Bayonne ham . The peppers are designated as Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée and are hung to dry outside many of
96-399: The greatest interest. The Jardin des Plantes commissioned him to undertake scientific journeys through China to make further collections. He succeeded in obtaining many specimens of hitherto unknown animals and plants, and the value of his comprehensive collections for the advance of systematic zoology and especially for the advancement of animal geography received universal recognition from
108-617: The houses and shops in the village during the summer. The peppers are sold in the town's Wednesday covered market and are honoured in a festival on the last Sunday in October. This Pyrénées-Atlantiques geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Henri %C3%89mile Sauvage Henri Émile Sauvage (22 September 1842 in Boulogne-sur-Mer – 3 January 1917 in Boulogne-sur-Mer)
120-594: The museum of the Jardin des Plantes. What Father David's scientific journeys meant for botany may be inferred from the fact that among the rhododendrons which he collected no less than fifty-two new species were found and among the primulae about forty, while the Western Mountains of China furnished an even greater number of hitherto unknown species of gentian . The most notable of the animals 'found' by David, which were hitherto unknown to Europeans , were
132-556: The scientific community at Paris in April, 1888. He had found in China all together 200 species of wild animals, of which 63 were hitherto unknown to zoologists, and 807 species of birds , 65 of which had not been described before. He made a large collection of reptiles , amphibians , and fishes and handed it over to specialists for further study. Also, a large number of moths and insects , many of them hitherto unknown, were brought to
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#1732772697915144-718: Was a French paleontologist , ichthyologist , and herpetologist . He was a leading expert on Mesozoic fish and reptiles. He worked as a curator at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Boulogne-sur-Mer , and published extensively on Late Jurassic dinosaurs and other vertebrates from the Boulonnais region of northern France. He made important contributions involving vertebrate palaeontology in Portugal , describing in 1897, Suchosaurus girardi from jaw fragments found in that country. From 1883 to 1896, he served as director of
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