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BREUIL, Henri Édouard Prosper [Abbé Breuil] (1877 – 1961)

1877 – 1961

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1940 CE

#11401

Découverte d'une remarkable grotte ornée, au domaine de Lascaux, Montignac (Dordogne).

Lascaux, which has been called "The Sistine Chapel of the Paleolithic", was discovered on September 12, 1940 by 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat when his dog, Robot, fell into a hole. Ravidar returned to the cave with three…