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Jean Louis Marie Poiret

Jean Louis Marie Poiret

French botanist and explorer
Jean Louis Marie Poiret was a French clergyman, botanist, and explorer. From 1785 to 1786, he was sent by Louis XVI to Algeria to study the flora. After the French Revolution, he became a professor of natural history at the Écoles Centrale of... Wikipedia
Born: June 11, 1755, Saint-Quentin, France
Died: April 7, 1834 (age 78 years), former 12th arrondissement of Paris