Showing posts with label John James Audubon's Birds of America. Show all posts
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Monday, April 25, 2011
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
Artist and Naturalist*Born April 26, 1785 - Died January 27,1851 John James Audubon was the illegitimate* son of a sea captain, Jean Audubon and a servant girl on a sugar plantation in Haiti. His mother Jeanne Rabin died when he was not yet a year old. His father cared for him a couple of years then sent the child to France to be raised by his middle-aged wife Anne, who was fourteen years older
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