Jean Desbouvrie (18 February 1843 – 18 August 1905) was a French amateur bird trainer who believed that swallows could be put to use for military communications...

used pigeons and sparrows to set fire to villages in the 10th century Jean Desbouvrie Military animals Pigeon intelligence Pigeon photography Project Pigeon...

Proposed architectural design for a French military aviary to house swallows as messenger birds, based upon a scheme by Jean Desbouvrie, 1889...

through the mending of a swallow's broken leg. During the 19th century, Jean Desbouvrie attempted to tame swallows and train them for use as messenger birds...

politician, deputy of the constituency of Roubaix to the National Assembly Jean Desbouvrie (c. 1840–1847-?): inventor and bird tamer Gérard Vachonfrance (1933–2008):...