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Place of Birth: Caen, Normandy, France
About Edme Lesauvage
- Edme Lesauvage (also spelt Le Sauvage) (23 October 1778 – 10 December 1852), was a French naturalist and physician in Caen.
- He wrote numerous papers on medical subjects as well as on natural history.
- His main interest was in palaeontology and especially the fossils of Calcaires de Caen. Lesauvage was born in Caen on October 23, 1778.
- His father Jean-Jacques Sauvage worked in the Bureau des Aides while his mother Marie-Louise-Jeanne Coquille ran a pottery and tobacco shop to add to the modest family income.
- Lesauvage spent his early years in a boarding school in a village near Caen where he was taken care of by an uncle.
- He was unhappy with school and was recalled due to his petulant behaviour and became an apprentice to a grocer at the age of fourteen or fifteen.
- He then moved to live in Rouen where he came to love books and reading returned and at the age of seventeen.
- He studied for a while under Delariviere and then under Doctor Dominel before going to Paris to study medicine.
- He won the first prize in Anatomy from 1806 to 1808 and obtained a doctorate in 1810.
- He returned to Caen and established himself as a skilled surgeon.
- In 1821 he was chosen to replace the medical head position occupied by Desbordeaux and vacated due to his death.
- The Caen Faculty of Science had to make a choice between Lesauvage and Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps and the Deslongchamps was chosen.
- Lesauvage then continued his surgical practice until 1846.
- After the death of Dr.
- Dominel in 1831 he was the head of surgery, a position he held till 1846.Lesauvage was a Professor at the l'Ecole secondaire de medecine, member of the Academy, correspondent of the Royal Academy of Medicine and the Academies at Rouen and Dijon.
- He left 12,000 Francs to the National Academy in Caen in 1884 to establish a biennial prize in physical sciences, natural and medical history.In 1827 Lesauvage became a member of the Société d'Agriculture and the Linnean Society.
- He founded a Medical Association in 1849.
- On 29 April 1844 he was made a member of the Legion d'Honour.He published works on the flora and the birds of Calvados.
- In 1838 he published a treatise on the treatment of syphilis.
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