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Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes
1788Sep, 10

Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes

Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and author (d. 1868)
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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