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Audubon had been born to Haiti, at that very moment a French colony called Domingue of Saint. His father was a captain of the navy bargains over and an adventurous French that possessed a sugar plant on the island. His mother, Joan Rabin, was the mistress of his father, and dead shortly after it had been born. The father of Audubon took his son and his girl small in France, where the children tender students by their mother-in-law, their ained of Audubon the legal woman. The children legally were adopted by the Audubons in 1789.

Growing in the French landscape around Provide, the young Audubon began drawing the wildlife and the natural scenes around him. It was accomplished and was played several instruments of music. It learned to hunt and to fish, and to like the nature, preferring to spend life in the open. It even was abandoned the naval school in favor to explore the landscape.

In 1803, when Audubon was 18 years old, his father sent it to America to avoid the draft in the army of Bonaparte of Napoledon. It went To Grind Grove, the family property in Pennsylvania. For three years, Audubon was free to do that it liked better ae" hunts, fishes, collects specimens and draws the wildlife. It began studying the birds of America and developed an innovative technique to telegraph the bodies of dead birds to dispose them in the realistic poses for that it could produce the natural and very resembling sketches

In 1759 In living to Grove of Mill, Audubon fell in the love with Lucy Bakewell, a neighbor. The father of Lucy was not fascinated on to leave his girl marries a man with few solid perspectives and the couple was engaged for five years before they married at last in 1808. They would have two sons, Victor Gifford and John Woodhouse.

Follow his marriage, Audubon sold the party of the property of Grove of Mill and transferred to the city of border of Louisville, Kentucky to establish a bazaar. But the matters were hard and Audubon was more interested in to draw birds than in the commerce. After its matters failed, Audubon moved itself in 1810 to Henderson, Kentucky where it entered into the partnership with his brother-in-law. Audubon prospered there a little, but the matters failed again in 1819, leaving the placement in bankruptcy. This marked the end of its businesses of matters.

With no means to support itself and his family, Audubon won a screw while producing portraits of coal to $5, working each as a taxidermiste in a museum of Cincinnati, and to the other curious jobs. During this period, Lucy became the support of principal family and supported the family while working as a citizen to the children of an owner of rich plant. Later, she opened a school for the girls.

In 1820, at the age of 35, Audubon decided to turn his love to paint birds in one wins bread and began informing the birds of America with a view to publish its works. It exposed for Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida with nothing but his color can, his rifle and his assistance, and spent the next one four years painting and inform the wildlife.

By 1824 Audubon felt that it had produced the studies of enough bird to begin the edition and took his wallet to Philadelphia to find an editor. But the bitter arguments and invested interests of rivals blocked his way and in 1826 it regulated the sail for the Great Britain to try his luck there. It landed in Liverpool with a wallet of 300 studies of bird and of some letters of introduction.

In Great Britain, Audubon met with the immediate success. A public enthusiast awaited to catch his life-size watercolor and its portraits of bird of fatty chalk. It found an editor, and visited the country to the research of the subscriptions to his monumental work, The birds of America. The edition was produced in the partial payments with every partial payment financed by the subscriptions to the preceding the one. It took eleven years for the entire volume to appear. It produced also the Biography ornithologique, a study of five volumes that contains detailed descriptions of the birds in the illustrated The birds of America.

Audubon returned to the United States in 1839 and bought a property on the River of Hudson. It prepared an edition of small format of The birds of America To sell and devoted to the United States the few next years to illustrate the big type of bird, as the gyrfalcon.

But the health of Audubon failed and at first months of January 1851 it suffered a blow. It was left paralyzed and in the pain. It is dead at the end of January this year.

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