Barrande, Prague, CZ
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N 50° 02.097 E 014° 24.127
33U E 457182 N 5542687
The name of French geologist and palaeontologist on the rock at the edge of Prague
Waymark Code: WMB7WR
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/17/2011
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Barrande was born at Saugues, Haute Loire, and educated in the École Polytechnique at Paris. Although he had received the training of an engineer, his first appointment was that of tutor to the duc de Bordeaux (afterwards known as the comte de Chambord), grandson of Charles X, and when the king abdicated in 1830, Barrande accompanied the royal exiles to England and Scotland, and afterwards to Prague. Settling in that city in 1831, he became occupied in engineering works, and his attention was then attracted to the fossils from the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Bohemia.
The district of Prague, Barrandov, was named in honor of the scientist on 24 February 1928.
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