Gilbert Tirant

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Gilbert Tirant (12 June 1848, Lyon – 2 October 1899, Lyon) was a French government official and naturalist. He studied medicine at Lyon, and following graduation in 1873 he traveled to Tunisia, publishing "Voyage dans la régence de Tunis" (1874; co-author Fleury Rebatel) as a result. Afterwards he was stationed in French Indochina, where he spent many years as an administrator in Cochinchina, Annam and Tonkin. In 1894 he was appointed director of political affairs and protectorates in the Gouvernement général de l’Indochine. In 1898 he returned to France, where he died the following year of malaria. rdf:langString
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rdf:langString Gilbert Tirant (12 June 1848, Lyon – 2 October 1899, Lyon) was a French government official and naturalist. He studied medicine at Lyon, and following graduation in 1873 he traveled to Tunisia, publishing "Voyage dans la régence de Tunis" (1874; co-author Fleury Rebatel) as a result. Afterwards he was stationed in French Indochina, where he spent many years as an administrator in Cochinchina, Annam and Tonkin. In 1894 he was appointed director of political affairs and protectorates in the Gouvernement général de l’Indochine. In 1898 he returned to France, where he died the following year of malaria. He supplied the museum in Lyon with a rich collection of birds, fish and other animals from Cochinchina. He also described several new species of fish whose types are kept in the museum.
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