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Alexandre Lenoir
Portrait by Jacques-Louis David (1815–1817)
Born
Marie Alexandre Lenoir

(1761-12-27)27 December 1761
Paris, France
Died11 June 1839(1839-06-11) (aged 77)
Paris, France
Occupationarchaeologist

Marie Alexandre Lenoir (27 December 1761 – 11 June 1839) was a French archaeologist. Self-taught, he devoted himself to saving France's historic monuments, sculptures and tombs from the ravages of the French Revolution, notably those of Saint-Denis and Sainte-Geneviève.

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Tomb of Brunhilda in the abbey church before 1790 (early 19th-century engraving by Alexandre Lenoir)...

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through various hands until the French conquest of Italy in 1797. Alexandre Lenoir mentioned in 1809 that it was on exhibition in the Bibliothèque Nationale...

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List of burials at Montparnasse Cemetery

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Anne of Brittany

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