Henri de La Blanchère

Born in 1821 at La Flèche, Pierre René Marie Henri Moulin du Coudray de La Blanchère — often published as Henri de La Blanchère — was a French naturalist and photographer. He studied at the École nationale des eaux et forêts and first worked as a forest guard before turning to chemistry studies in Nantes and then to a wider career in natural history.

After settling in Paris in 1855, he learned photography with Gustave Le Gray. He became one of the early French scholars to use photography in natural-history research, and he also wrote practical books on photographic methods, including works on the collodion process, stereoscopy, and beginner instruction.

La Blanchère published widely on fish, fishing, gardening, birds, acclimatization, and useful or harmful animals, aiming to make science understandable to general readers. He died in 1880 at Le Havre. No suitable verified portrait image was confirmed from the sources reviewed during this search.