sentences:  Alfred Mathieu Giard
  
  Alfred Mathieu Giard (8 August 1846 – 8 August 1908) was a French zoologist born in Valenciennes.In 1867 he began his studies of natural sciences at the École Normale Supérieure, followed by work as "préparateur de zoologie" at the laboratory of Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821–1901) in Paris.