Guy de La Brosse

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Drawing of a bust of Guy de La Brosse

Guy de La Brosse (1586 – 1641 in Paris), was a French botanist, medical doctor, and pharmacist.

Jardin des Plantes (originally Jardin du Roi) was the first botanical garden in Paris, and the second in France (after the Montpellier garden created in 1593
).

Biography

Guy de La Brosse, medical doctor to Louis XIII, obtained royal permission on 6 July 1626 to found, in Paris, a herb garden destined to culture plants useful to medicine to replace those of

Henri IV
. But this project took some time to come to fruition since the Faculty of Medicine in Paris considered the garden as competition to their activities, because La Brosse wished to teach botany and chemistry there.

This garden, called "Jardin du roi" (Garden of the King), would not be officially inaugurated until 1640, more than 5 years after its actual creation.[3] To calm the university faculty, the king only authorised one teacher without diploma at the garden, with this choice being left to the garden supervisor.

Calla aethopica, drawn Abraham Bosse, 1640

In 1628 La Brosse published "Dessin du Jardin Royal pour la culture des plantes médicinales" ("Design of the Royal Garden for the culture of medical plants"). It was published again with five supplementary woodcuts in 1640. It contained the nature, virtue and use of the medical plants, a catalogue of the plants currently being cultivated and a plan of the garden.

Sebastien Vaillant (1669–1722) and Antoine de Jussieu
(1686–1758) supplied a collection of 24 specimens.

The Jardin du Roi is now known as the Jardin des Plantes (Garden of Plants).

Works

  • Traicté de la peste, fait par Guy de La Brosse,... avec les remèdes préservatifs (1623)
  • Dessin du Jardin Royal pour la culture des plantes médicinales (1928)
  • De la nature, vertu, et utilité des plantes (1628)
  • Avis pour le Jardin royal des plantes (1931)
  • L'ouverture du Jardin royal de Paris (1640)

References

  1. ISSN 0021-1753
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  2. OCLC 8591273
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  3. ^ "Plantes et médecine, (al)chimie et libertinisme chez Guy de la Brosse — Medica — BIU Santé, Paris". www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  4. ^ "The Galileo Project, La Brosse, Guy de". galileo.rice.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-01.

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