Everything about Ren Louiche Desfontaines totally explained
René Louiche Desfontaines (
February 14,
1750 –
November 16 1833) was a
French botanist.
Desfontaines was born near Tremblay in
Brittany. He attended the
Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to
Paris to study
medicine. His interest in
botany originated from lectures at the
Jardin des Plantes given by
Louis Guillaume Lemonnier. He excelled in his new interest and was elected to the
French Academy of Sciences in 1783.
Desfontaines spent two years in
Tunisia and
Algeria, returning with a large collection of plants. He wrote
Flora Atlantica (1798–1799, 2 vols), which included 300 genera new to science. In 1786, he was appointed professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes, replacing Lemonnier. He later became director of the
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, was one of the founders of the
Institut de France, president of the
Academy of Sciences, and elected to the
Légion d’honneur.
The genus
Desfontainia is named for this author.
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