Bill Ryan
8th January 2025, 20:22
Dr. Hervé Hugon
Dr. Hervé Hugon passed away on 13 November 2024, two days short of his 72nd birthday, in Paimpol, Côtes-d'Armor, France.
Hervé was born in Djibouti on 15 November 1952. He earned his PhD in Geology, and spent most of his working life in the province of Québec, Canada as a geologist. This photograph of him, the only one on record, was taken in 1982 at the age of 29 on a geological expedition in Northern Labrador.
http://projectavalon.net/Herve_1982_photo_in_Northern_Canada.jpg
After retiring as a professional field geologist, he moved back to Brittany, France, several years ago. He had no family or children. His only close relative, a brother, who lived with him in Paimpol, had himself died a few years ago.
In early December 2019 he fell ill and was hospitalized with what several months later was named as Covid-19, one of the very earliest known cases in Europe. After several weeks of intensive treatment, he was able to return home. But his illness never left him, and it morphed into what is now known as Long Covid.
Hervé never fully recovered, and it left him greatly weakened in a number of ways. It is not known in medical terms what precisely caused his death, but it has to be very probable that all this was connected.
Although he was somewhat isolated in his Brittany home, he had a large number of close friends all over the world who loved him dearly. He kept in daily contact with them over the internet, and they will remember him fondly for his sharp intellect, his wry sense of humor, his unending scientific interest in all things geological and geophysical, his great awareness of and concern for everything happening in the wider world — and above all, for his tremendous kindness.
R.I.P, Hervé. You are greatly loved, and you are very greatly missed.
Dr. Hervé Hugon passed away on 13 November 2024, two days short of his 72nd birthday, in Paimpol, Côtes-d'Armor, France.
Hervé was born in Djibouti on 15 November 1952. He earned his PhD in Geology, and spent most of his working life in the province of Québec, Canada as a geologist. This photograph of him, the only one on record, was taken in 1982 at the age of 29 on a geological expedition in Northern Labrador.
http://projectavalon.net/Herve_1982_photo_in_Northern_Canada.jpg
After retiring as a professional field geologist, he moved back to Brittany, France, several years ago. He had no family or children. His only close relative, a brother, who lived with him in Paimpol, had himself died a few years ago.
In early December 2019 he fell ill and was hospitalized with what several months later was named as Covid-19, one of the very earliest known cases in Europe. After several weeks of intensive treatment, he was able to return home. But his illness never left him, and it morphed into what is now known as Long Covid.
Hervé never fully recovered, and it left him greatly weakened in a number of ways. It is not known in medical terms what precisely caused his death, but it has to be very probable that all this was connected.
Although he was somewhat isolated in his Brittany home, he had a large number of close friends all over the world who loved him dearly. He kept in daily contact with them over the internet, and they will remember him fondly for his sharp intellect, his wry sense of humor, his unending scientific interest in all things geological and geophysical, his great awareness of and concern for everything happening in the wider world — and above all, for his tremendous kindness.
R.I.P, Hervé. You are greatly loved, and you are very greatly missed.