Editing Adolphe d'Archiac (section)

==Early life==
He was born at [[Reims]] and educated at the [[École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr|Military School of St. Cyr]]. He served for nine years as a cavalry officer until 1830, when he retired from the service. Prior to this he had published an historical romance (''Zizim, ou les Chevaliers de Rhodes, roman historique du XVe siècle'');<ref>{{cite book |last=Archiac |first=Vicomte d' |title=Zizim et les Chevaliers de Rhodes : Roman Historique du XVe Siècle |location=Paris |publisher=Bridelle |date=1828 |oclc=647958193 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647958193}}</ref> but now [[geology]] became his primary focus. In his earlier scientific works, which date from 1835, he described the [[Tertiary]] and [[Cretaceous]] formations of France, Belgium and England, and dealt especially with the distribution of [[fossils]] geographically and in sequence. Later on he investigated the [[Carboniferous]], [[Devonian]] and [[Silurian]] formations.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}