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François Edmond Desnoyers

1806–1902 · France

Orléans priest and collector who gave about 4,500 objects to the city's museum in 1879 and published a study of a Cypriot gold earring in its collection.

Biography

François-Edmond Desnoyers, a priest of Orléans, wrote a study of a Cypriot gold earring in the Orléans museum. He was born in Orléans on 15 August 1806 and died there on 27 January 19021. After collecting for some forty years he gave his collections, about 4,500 objects, to the museum in 1879, then directed it and wrote its catalogue5.

The Mémoires of the Orléans academy for 1902 say that he bought a Cypriot jewel for the museum, with other objects from the excavations of Saltzmann in Cyprus2. His study, "Un bijou cypriote du Musée d'Orléans", reads the earring's crescent and pyramid form as Venus Urania. It is printed in volume XVIII of the Mémoires of the Société archéologique de l'Orléanais, dated 1884; other sources date it to 1880 or 18814.

A report of 1885 states that he gave Cypriot limestone statuettes from excavations at Larnaca in 18683. In 1882 he offered casts to the museum at Saint-Germain7.

Life and work

  1. 1881
  2. 1943
    Owned 1 object (among them 'Cavalier sur son cheval', inv. A.7872 ; G.563 : Autre n°. catalogue Jules Baillet, 1943); now in hôtel Cabu, musée d’histoire et d’archéologie, Orléans.

    Joconde, Ministère de la Culture (POP), notice for hôtel Cabu, musée d’histoire et d’archéologie (Orléans), 'Cavalier sur son cheval', inv. A.7872 ; G.563 : Autre n°. catalogue Jules Baillet, 1943

Through their hands

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  1. 1879

    GiftFrançois Desnoyers gave his accumulated collections to the museum in 1879.

    Gave to Musée Historique et Archéologique de la Ville d'Orléanscollections amassées pendant quarante années (soit 4500 objets)OrléansDecaudin 1984, p. 25

Connections

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Colleagues & contacts

Recording and study

2 records
Catalogued1

  • 1879François Desnoyers wrote the museum catalogue of his collections.

    collections amassées pendant quarante années (soit 4500 objets)OrléansDecaudin 1984, p. 25

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Mentioned in

3 mentions

Documents · 1

Institutions · 1

Sources

  1. 1.Wikidata (2026). François-Edmond Desnoyers (Q47904526). Online
  2. 2.Académie d'Orléans (1902). “Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences, belles-lettres et arts d'Orléans”.
  3. 3.Fédération des sociétés d'histoire et d'archéologie d'Alsace (1885). “Revue d'Alsace”. 381.
  4. 4.Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais (1884). “Mémoires de la Société archéologique de l'Orléanais, vol. XVIII”. 12, 41.
  5. 5.Antoinette J. Decaudin (1984). Le mauvais oeil, une superstition perdurable. 2, 25.
  6. 6.Émile Davoust (1879). La Collection Desnoyers au musée historique d'Orléans. 104.
  7. 7.Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais (1882-10-01). “Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais”. 165.
  8. 8.Antoine Laporte (1884). Bibliographie contemporaine: histoire littéraire du dix-neuvième siècle.
  9. 9.Antoinette J. Decaudin (1984). “Le mauvais oeil, une superstition perdurable”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 2.
  10. 10.Joconde, Ministère de la Culture (POP), notice for hôtel Cabu, musée d’histoire et d’archéologie (Orléans), 'Cavalier sur son cheval', inv. A.7872 ; G.563 : Autre n°. catalogue Jules Baillet, 1943. Online
  11. 11.Edmond Desnoyers, 1884, Un bijou cypriote, p. 3; Émile Davoust, 1879, La collection Desnoyers au musée historique d'Orléans.
  12. 12.Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences, belles-lettres et arts d'Orléans (1902).
  13. 13.Liblin, Joseph, 1811-1899; Gasser, August; Ingold, Angel, Revue d'Alsace (1850).
  14. 14.Académie d'Orléans, 1902, Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences, belles-lettres et arts d'Orléans.
  15. 15.Fédération des sociétés d'histoire et d'archéologie d'Alsace, Revue d'Alsace (1885).
  16. 16.Revue d'Alsace (1834).
  17. 17.Académie d'Orléans, Mémoires de la Société d'agriculture, sciences, belles-lettres et arts d'Orléans (1902).

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