Henri de La Blanchère

Born in 1821 in La Flèche, Pierre Moulin du Coudray de La Blanchère—often published as Henri de La Blanchère—was a French naturalist, photographer, and writer. Library and authority records link his name to a large body of work, showing how active he was as an author across several decades.

Sources on his life describe him as trained in forestry before building a broader career around natural history and photography. He wrote for general readers rather than only specialists, with books on subjects such as fishing, forests, animals, and photographic practice, helping bring science and field observation to a wider public in an accessible way.

He died in 1880 in Le Havre. Today, he is remembered as one of those versatile 19th-century figures who moved easily between science, image-making, and storytelling, leaving behind works that reflect both curiosity about nature and a gift for explaining it clearly.