Françoise Ardré
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Françoise Ardré is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 phycologist and marine scientist
Oceanography
Oceanography , also called oceanology or marine science, is the branch of Earth science that studies the ocean...

; honoured as the namesake of the red alga known as Pterosiphonia ardreana.

After she held a Doctorate in Sciences, Ardré was in charge of the phycology department of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle is the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.- History :The museum was formally founded on 10 June 1793, during the French Revolution...

 in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. She also conducted research programs in Portugal, in Spain (Cadaqués
Cadaqués
Cadaqués is a town in the Alt Empordà comarca, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It is on a bay in the middle of the Cap de Creus peninsula, near Cap de Creus cape, on the Costa Brava of the Mediterranean...

) and in France (Ile d'Yeu
Île d'Yeu
Île d'Yeu is an island and commune just off the Vendée coast of western France.The island's two harbours, Port-Joinville in the north and Port de la Meule, located in a rocky inlet of the southern granite coast, are famous for the fishing of tuna and lobster....

), among another locations. Able to dive in apnea without wetsuit in the cold water of the ocean, she fetched, discovered and collected herself the new seaweeds she studied.

Her most well known published literary work is Contribution à l'étude des Algues Marines du Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 I: La Flore
(English: Contribution to the Study of the Marine Algas of Portugal I: Flora).

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Portraits of Françoise Ardré were painted, inspiring painters such as Maurice Boitel
Maurice Boitel
Maurice Boitel Maurice Boitel Maurice Boitel (July 31, 1919 – August 11, 2007 in Audresselles (Pas-de-Calais), was a French painter.-Artistic life:Maurice Boitel belonged to the art movement called "La Jeune Peinture" ("Young Picture") of the School of Paris, with painters like Bernard Buffet, Yves...

 and Pierre Béchon.

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