Gustave Dutailly (2 August 1846, in Meuvy (

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, politician and art collector. He studied

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, and in the meantime made contributions to the ''Dictionnaire de botanique''.Prosopo
Sociétés savantes de France In 1870, he became a member of the Société linnéenne de Paris, and in 1875 a member of the

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. In 1880, he was appointed a professor of

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to the faculty of sciences at

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. In Lyon, he also served as director of the

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. From 1882, he was a member of the Société d'anthropologie de Lyon. In 1881, he resigned his professorship in order to pursue scientific activities that included work associated with the ''Association française pour l’avancement des sciences'' (French Association for the Advancement of Sciences). During the same year, he became a deputy (political title) of the arrondissement of Chaumont, and in 1885 was named deputy of the department of

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, during his lifetime he amassed a collection of 5000 posters composed by artists that included

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, Adolphe Léon Willette and

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. At the time of his death, his art collection as well as a library of 3500 volumes were bequeathed to the city of Chaumont. His collection is housed at the Book and Poster Center in Chaumont. Politically, he served three times in the National Assembly for the far-left, being elected 1881, 1885 and 1898. In the family

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, from the island of

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, 2

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were named in his honour. The genus of '' Dutaillyea'' by

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, in 1872. Also the genus of '' Dutailliopsis'' by American botanist T.G.Hartley in 1997.

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