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Jean Victor Audouin, sometimes Victor Audouin, was a French naturalist, an entomologist, herpetologist, ornithologist, and malacologist.

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Lucien Berland was a French entomologist and arachnologist

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Pierre Bonnet was a French arachnologist who wrote Bibliographia Araneorum, an immense work listing publications on spiders. It was the result of forty years of work.

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Paul Camboué was a French Jesuit priest, arachnologist, and entomologist.

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Pierre André Latreille was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest before the French Revolution, Latreille was imprisoned, and only regained his freedom after recognising a rare beetle species he found in the prison, Necrobia ruficollis.

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Guillaume-Antoine Olivier was a French entomologist and naturalist.

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Eugène Louis Simon was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4,000 species.

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Baron Charles Athanase Walckenaer was a French civil servant and scientist.