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Broca

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Broca (French) [brɔka]
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(Biographies / Broca, Paul (1824-1880) M, French, MEDICINE: surgeon, SOCIAL SCIENCE: anthropologist) Paul (pɔl). 1824-80, French surgeon and anthropologist who discovered the motor speech centre of the brain and did pioneering work in brain surgery
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Noun1.Broca - French anthropologist who studied the craniums and brains of different races of people; remembered for his discovery that articulate speech depends on an area of the brain now known as Broca's area (1824-1880)


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Then she did a film for Philippe de Broca called Le Roi de coeur [1966].
De Broca (who also co-wrote with Jean Cosmos) gives it a frisky energy with plenty of improbable, against- the-odds sword fights and a ``shock the market'' ruse that would likely have Wall Street believing that Feval was eerily prescient.
Films A2 (France), Filmax (France), RAI TV2 (Italy) p John Kemeny, Denis Heroux d Philippe de Broca sc Etienne Perier, Dominique Fabre, Charles Israel novels Maurice Denuziere ph Michel Brault ed Henri Lanoe m Claude Bolling with Margot Kidder, Ian Charleson, Victor Lanoux, Andrea Ferreol, Len Cariou, Lloyd Bochner.
 
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