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Type of entity
Person
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Bordas, Léonard
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Description area
Dates of existence
1864-1954
History
Léonard Bordas, also known as Professor Bordas, was born in 1864 in Égletons, Corrèze, in the New Aquitaine region of southwestern France, to a father who worked as a sawyer.
He was a French naturalist, entomologist, and educator. He excelled in his studies of natural sciences and graduated in natural history. Bordas taught at the University of Rennes, where he later served as the dean and then the rector of his faculty. Upon his death, he left a substantial collection of insects and scientific reports to the Albert Thomas College in Égletons.