Philibert Charles Berjeau

Charles Berjeau, was a natural history illustrator and lithographer, active in London in the late Victorian era.

Following the coup of Napoleon III, who overthrew the French Second Republic, the family was exiled to England in 1850-1, moving to Eastcastle Street in London, W.1, where Lucy and Maurice were born.

[a] Although he had returned to live with his parents by the time of the 1871 census, Berjeau had made his way to France to help defend his native city during the Siege of Paris (1870–71).

He wrote a letter to his landlady, Mrs Susanna Crockford (wife of a brewery manager), of 190 Camden Road, London, NW 10, which was sent by balloon post from Paris, dated 17 November 1870, whilst he was serving with the Artillery de la Seine (Garde Nationale), 10th Batterie 4th Piece: Berjeau's father was an author, editor and engraver; in 1862 he published Le Bibliophile Illustré, claiming "Texte et Gravures par J. Ph.

[8] He made a sketch of the Sumatran rhinoceros which gave birth in Charles William Rice's stables on Commercial Road in December 1872.

The Burmese peacock softshell turtle, Nilssonia formosa , illustrated by Berjeau, 1878
Berjeau's reconstruction of the extinct hoopoe starling of Réunion, Fregilupus varius , 1911
Illustration of Dogs, "Antique from the British Museum", 1863
Skeleton of hoopoe starling, Fregilupus varius , 1874