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plead his cause. But while in Paris he established friendships scholars who made it possible for him to continue his studies on fish. Although the Paris ichthyological collections surpassed those that
Broussonet had worked from in the South, they were not comprehensive enough for the classification work he wished to pursue. Ultimately, he went to England to seek the specimens needed for the morphological and systematic work he had in mind.
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in Lisbon. Banks also continued to be in contact and helped him financially. But French citizens who had emigrated to Spain earlier looked upon him as a revolutionary. Having become friends with
Simpson, American consul in Gibraltar, Broussonet accompanied him as physician on a diplomatic mission to
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Broussonet, then twenty-eight in 1789, enthusiastically welcomed revolutionary ideas, as was characteristic of his generation, but he was horrified by the tactics of the extreme left. On 22 July 1789, his friend
Berthier, held responsible for the current famine, was lynched and dragged through the
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Broussonet’s thesis was unanimously praised. Despite his youth, the professors of the
University of Montpellier asked that he be made his father’s successor when the latter retired (a rare but not uncommon request). The request was not granted, in spite of Broussonet himself traveling to Paris to
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streets before his eyes. Seeing the danger, Broussonet fled Paris. In 1792 he took refuge in
Montpellier but was accused of federalism and thrown in jail. He remained there only a few days, but his liberty was still precarious after his release. He then left Montpellier for
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Broussonet tried hard to fulfill the duties of his new offices. From 1785 to 1788, he published short notices, some signed, some anonymous (many are still unidentified to this day), for the use of farmers. Unfortunately, this work came too late, and the beginning of the
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when he suffered a stroke that caused a gradually worsening aphasia. On 17 August 1806 he notified the director of the medical school that he must resign his post, and a year later, he suffered a final stroke that caused his death.
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In 1795, when he returned to France, Broussonet's name was removed from the list of political refugees, and he regained possession of his property. Elected to the
Institut in 1796, he requested appointment as a
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1780 London offered
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Banks had brought back from Cook's first expedition a considerable number of exotic fish, which he turned over to
Broussonet for study, thereby making it possible for Broussonet to start his
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Auguste Broussonet (1761-1807), naturaliste et médecin : un cas clinique important dans l’émergence de la doctrine française des aphasies »,
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As a child, Pierre showed a passion for natural history, cluttering his home with specimen collections. In school, he excelled in classical studies in
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to join his brother Victor, then a doctor in the army of Pyrénées-Orientales. On 19 July 1794 he crossed the Spanish border.
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put an end to Broussonet's agricultural efforts. During this time, in 1786, the Portuguese naturalist and priest
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