Jean Nicolas Bréon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French botanist
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Place of Birth: Sierck-les-Bains, Grand Est, France
About Jean Nicolas Bréon
- Jean Nicolas Bréon (27 September 1785, Sierck – 1864, Noyon), often known as Nicolas Bréon, was a noted French plant collector and botanist. From 1809 he worked as a student gardener at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, later serving as a botanist/gardener at the botanical garden in Ajaccio (1813).
- In February 1815 he was named a gardener-botanist of the French Navy.
- Bréon was the first director (1817–1831) of the Jardin du Roy (now the Jardin de l'État) in the Île Bourbon (now Réunion).
- During his time on Réunion, he organized several botanical trips to Madagascar, the Maldives and the Arabian peninsula.The genus Breonia was named in his honor by botanist Achille Richard — the genus Breonadia (family Rubiaceae) is most likely named after him.
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