Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun - Memory

Memory

His name was given to a street in Marcoussis (the one where he used to live).

A mountain of New Zealand, in the Southern Alps on South Island also bears his name: Malte Brun (culminating, according to sources', between 3,176 m and 3,199 m). According to the name-giver, Sir Julius von Haast, (p450-452 in his autobiography) this was intended to honour the son.

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