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Latreille was born into a humble family of Brive-la-Gaillarde , Corrèze , and in 1778 entered the College Lemoine in Paris . He was ordained a Priest in 1786 and then went back to Brive, where he spent all of his free time studying insects. In 1788 he returned to Paris and became active in the scientific community there, his ''Mémoire sur les mutilles découvertes en France'' gaining him admission to the Society For Natural History . As a priest with conservative leanings, the French Revolution made his situation uncomfortable; he left Paris, and was later imprisoned at Bordeaux . In 1796 he published ''Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel'' at Brive. In 1798 he was given the task of arranging the entomological collection at the recently organized Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle in Paris ; in 1814 he became a member of the French Academy Of Sciences (succeeding G. A. Olivier ), and in 1821 he was made a chevalier of the Legion Of Honor . He was professor of Zoology in the veterinary school at Alfort near Paris, and in 1830, when the chair of zoology of Invertebrates at the Museum was divided after the death of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck , Latreille was appointed professor of zoology of Crustacean s, Arachnid s and insects, the chair of Mollusc s, Worm s and Zoophyte s being assigned to Henri Marie Ducrotay De Blainville . The Crab genus '' Latreillia '' is named in his honour. WORKS
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