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简体中文 Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
Étienne Jules Adolphe Desmier de Saint-Simon, Vicomte d'Archiac (24 September 1802 – 24 December 1868) was a French geologist and paleontologist.
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