Jules Pierre Fourreau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French botanist
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Place of Birth: Lyon, Auvergne-RhĂ´ne-Alpes, France
About Jules Pierre Fourreau
- Jules Pierre Fourreau (25 August 1844, Lyon – 16 January 1871, Beaune) was a French botanist. As a young man he worked as an assistant to botanist Alexis Jordan (1814-1897) in Lyon.
- Beginning in the mid-1860s, he began collecting plants throughout southeastern France (Ardèche, the Alps, Provence, et al.).
- In November 1870 he enlisted in the Légionnaires du Rhône, and on 16 January 1871 he died in a hospital in Beaune as a result of injuries received at the Bataille de Nuits (18 December 1870).In 1864 he became a member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon.
- In 1867 he introduced the genus name Mistralia (family Thymelaeaceae) in honor of poet Frédéric Mistral.
- In 1869 he founded the Société de la Renaissance, serving as its first president.The genus Fourraea (family Brassicaceae) is named in his honor.
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