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HERBARIUS - Marcel Drapier (born 1892, died in...

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HERBARIUS - Marcel Drapier (born 1892, died in action at Verdun in 1916, the only Great War casualty in Clermont, his village in the Aisne region, which has a "Monument au Mort" (with a bas-relief depicting Marcel Drapier); Marcel Drapier was destined for horticulture, having attended the Ecole Nationale d'Horticulture de Rennes) / The dossier presented here comprises: 1°) the herbarium, 2 large boxes of 129 plates with his collections in the Aisne department in 1912, each plate bearing the label of the Ecole Nationale d'Horticulture de Rennes, with captions and dates a large - 2°) original pre-war photo of Marcel (black white 39 x 49 cm) and the pious image commemorating his death at the Front