Emmanuel Fauré-Frémiet

Emmanuel Fauré-Fremiet, ForMemRS,

Early life Fauré-Fremiet was born on 29 December 1883 to the composer Gabriel Fauré and Marie Fremiet, the daughter of the sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet. As a child he had poor health and was privately tutored at home. He published extensively on protozoology, especially the ciliates, on embryology, and experimental cell biology. At the Institut de Biologie Physicochimique (the Rothschild Institute), he developed diffraction X-Ray, and electron microscopy with Boris Ephrussi. He described the unusual cilliate genus Legendrea.

Personal life In March 1913, Fauré-Fremiet married Jeanne, daughter of Louis-Félix Henneguy. The couple had no children, and for many years, her sister Suzanne lived with them. Jeanne died in 1967, and Suzanne in 1970. He later married his former assistant M. Hamard in 1971. Fauré-Fremiet died from bronchitis and emphysema on 6 November 1971.