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ARNOLD - LUCIEN MONTANDON (1852 – 1922 - Travaux

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486 GABRIELA ANDREI, CORNELIU PANDELE<br />

1883, in autumn <strong>–</strong> he left Broºteni (Moldova). «Comme l’eau, le temps a<br />

coulé, lentement ou trop vite, et les pierres du fond sont encore là, comme les<br />

souvenirs qui restent gravés dans la mémoire. Sept années se sont écoulées depuis<br />

mon départ de Bucarest….» wrote Montandon in 1884, after he left behind<br />

Moldova, the place were he had spent the most beautiful years of his youth, and<br />

added sadly: «Je viens de quitter ce coin de pays il y a quelques mois à peine….<br />

peut-être pour toujours».<br />

1884 <strong>–</strong> 1888 <strong>–</strong> temporary settled in Sinaia (Prahova Valley), also as<br />

administrator of the Royal Estate; he made the first trips in Dobrogea.<br />

1884 (1885) <strong>–</strong> the book Souvenirs de Moldavie <strong>–</strong> Le Domaine Royal de<br />

Brosteni was published, including a complete description of the area from the<br />

mineralogical, petrographical, geographical, floral, faunal and ethnographical point<br />

of view. It offers a pleasant and educational reading which addresses both to the<br />

scientists and the tourists.<br />

1885, 2 nd of April <strong>–</strong> In the meeting of Société d’Etudes Scientifiques d’Angers<br />

«M. Gallois présente, de la part de M. Arnold <strong>MONTANDON</strong>, une centaine<br />

d’espèces d’hémiptères, fort bien préparés, recueillis, pour la plupart, en Moldavie<br />

par notre collègue. L’Assemblée décide que ces insectes seront donnés au musée<br />

d’histoire naturelle d’Angers comme premier noyau d’une collection<br />

hémiptérologique, et que des remerciements seront adressés à M. Montandon».<br />

1885 <strong>–</strong> at Caen he published two papers on the Romanian fauna: Description<br />

d’un Hémiptère-Hétéroptère nouveau, where he described Camptobrochis putoni,<br />

dedicated to the great August Puton and Hémiptères - Hétéroptères de Moldavie.<br />

Description de deux nouveaux Eurygaster.<br />

In 1885 his two sons, Marcel, ten years old, and René, eight years old, left<br />

Romania for going to study in France, at Besançon (Andrei, 2006).<br />

1886 <strong>–</strong> in Revue d’Entomologie the papers Hémiptères-Hétéroptères de la<br />

Dobroudja is published. On the entomological fauna of Dobrogea, Montandon<br />

asserted that it was almost completely unknown, and as regards this region, which<br />

had become Romanian territory after the 1877 Independence War, is unfairly<br />

underestimated by the Western Europe, because of the stories, full of errors made by<br />

some travellers who never went there. This idea would be resumed and commented<br />

widely by Montandon in the paper mentioned further.<br />

1887 <strong>–</strong> he published Excursions en Dobroudja (Fig. 2). The collecting lists<br />

include over 470 coleopteran species, 86 homopterans, some tens of molluscs, etc.<br />

Heteropterans were the subject of a separated paper, published at Caen, in 1886.<br />

1888 <strong>–</strong> he left Sinaia, at the physicians’ advice. Just in Excursions en<br />

Dobroudja, Montandon says, describing the beach of Mangalia: «La faune y<br />

paraissait plus riche et d’un caractère plus méridional, de sorte que j’y prolongeai<br />

mon séjour aussi longtemps que possible. Il m’arrivait souvent de faire deux bains<br />

de mer par jour et, entre temps, étendu à plat ventre sur la plage à la recherche<br />

d’insectes sous les débris d’algues rejetés par le flot, j’emmagasinais, à l’instar des<br />

lézards, de chauds rayons de soleil qui rétablissaient, peu à peu, ma santé ébranlée<br />

par les hivers trop longs et la constante humidité des Carpathes.» (Montandon,<br />

1887).<br />

1889 <strong>–</strong> coming back to Bucharest, he moved in 22 Viilor Str., in Filaret<br />

district; he became Administrative Director of the Th. Mandrea et C ie Footwear<br />

Factory.

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