page_title: Louis Cordier
hierarchical_section_title: Louis Cordier
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of the geologist Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (1777&#8211;1861) by Ambroise Tardieu (1788&#8211;1841). From the Smithsonian Digital Collection.
context_page_description: Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier was a French geologist and mineralogist, and a founder of the French Geological Society. He was professor of geology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris from 1819 to 1861, and was responsible for the development of the geological gallery in the museum.
context_section_description: Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (31 March 1777 – 30 March 1861) was a French geologist and mineralogist, and a founder of the French Geological Society. He was professor of geology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris from 1819 to 1861, and was responsible for the development of the geological gallery in the museum.
caption: Portrait by Ambroise Tardieu (1825)
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