OFFICE DE TOURISME
Tourist office hosting the Cabinet of Curiosities of the paleontologist Marcellin Boule, and housing remarkable elements.
The tourist office hosts the cabinet of curiosities of the paleontologist Marcellin Boule (1861-1942), native of Montsalvy. Among the remarkable elements: a microscope offered by the Academy of Sciences to the young scientist in 1891; the material for his excavations; fossils and minerals including an Acheulean biface (200,000 years old) from the Aurillac region (Cantal); the book Les Hommes fossiles - Eléments de paléontologie, published in 1921, which had international success. The office will also be your contact to prepare your stay in the Châtaigneraie.
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