Etienne Soulange-Bodin

Attention: not to confuse with l´ Abbot Soulange-Bodin, eclesiastic French

The knight Etienne Soulange-Bodin (born in 1774 and died in 1846), is a politician, Diplomate and Botaniste French.

The botanist

Impassioned man of the 19th century, president of the Company linnéenne of Paris, of the royal and central Company of agriculture, of the horticultural Company of Londre, it revolutionizes the world of the Horticulture by his practice and his theory. He buys the castle of Fromont or he sets up new methods of conservation of the plants of which he lays out more than 3.000 varieties.

He founds in 1829 the first school of French horticulture where he uses science to develop the Botanique. Charles X visits him and baptizes the royal institute of horticulture of Fromont. Soulange-Bodin allows to the evolution of the gardens with a social character by a broader number owners.

Inventor of the magniolia of Soulange - very today planted magniolia - and organizer of the first floral exposures to the Louvre in 1829.

One reproaches Soulange-Bodin for having developed the passion of the empress for the horticulture and his expenditure.

The politician

Near to the capacity it is to advise ministers. Representative and friend of Eugene de Beauharnais in France. Napoleon decrees the to him Légion of honor and iron crowns it.

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