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Henry Testot-Ferry

French geologist, archeologist and paleontologist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Henry Bernard Alfred Testot-Ferry also known as Henry de Ferry was a French geologist, archeologist and paleontologist. He was discoverer of the prehistoric site at the Rock of Solutré.

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“Henry Testot-Ferry” enters the record as french geologist, archeologist and paleontologist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Henry, Testot-Ferry and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Henry Testot-Ferry” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.