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Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes
1868Aug, 5

Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes

Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and historian (b. 1788)
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (French pronunciation: ​[ʒak buʃe d(ə) kʁɛvkœʁ də pɛʁt]; 10 September 1788 – 5 August 1868), sometimes referred to as Boucher de Perthes (British English: BOO-shay də PAIRT), was a French archaeologist and antiquary notable for his discovery, in about 1830, of flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley.

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