Adolphe Bitard
Adolphe-Louis-Émile Bitard (24 February 1826 – early 1888) was a 19th-century French journalist and scientific educator.

From age 17, he enlisted in the campaigns of Crimea and Italy. After the  was voted, Bitard participated to several Parisian dailies, and then, from 1871, to science magazines such as La Revue de France, Le Musée universel and  which he established some weeks before he died. He created two other magazines,  in 1878, and  in 1881, then  in 1887. In addition to popular science books, he left a biographical dictionary and several practical encyclopedias.

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Sources 
 Catherine Benedic, "Le Monde des vulgarisateurs", La science pour tous, sur la vulgarisation scientifique en France de 1850 à 1914, Paris, Bibliothèque du conservatoire national des arts et métiers, 1990, (p. 41).

External links 
 Adolphe Bitard on Data.bnf.fr

19th-century French journalists
French male journalists
French science journalists
1826 births
1888 deaths
19th-century French male writers