See also: Bonamy

François Bonamy , (May 10th 1710, Nantes - January 5th 1786, Nantes), doctor and botanist French

Doctor and Botanist Nantes (Family Bonamy), it teaches the Botanique during nearly 50 years, free and in public. With its expenses, it maintains a exotic Botanical garden. Founder of the Company of agriculture of Brittany (the first in France), he is the author of Flore of the surroundings of Nantes published in 1782. He is regent of the faculty of Médecine of Nantes, public prosecutor, then vice-chancellor of the royal University of Nantes. Director of the establishment of the Botanical garden of Nantes (1737, personal doctor of Barin of Galissonnière. In 1764 thanks to a branch brought back by a young apothecary, the sior Louvrier, Bonamy identifies the Laurier tulipier or Magnolia will grandiflora planted towards 1731 in Maillardière meadows of Rezé by Darquistade, another Mayor of Nantes. A few years later, with the assistance of the gardener Moreau, Bonamy tries and succeeds on several occasions of the air Marcotte S but alas, each time, those are flights. The fourth year, their patience is finally rewarded and the kids of the famous tree will contribute, of park in garden, to affirm the botanical notoriety of Nantes. When Bonamy ceases its activities in 1780, it is Armand Prudent Lemerle which succeeds to him.

A street of the town of Rezé bears its name.

Publications

• Florae Nannetensis prodromus… cleaning magistro Francisco Bonamy , Flora of the surroundings of Nantes . Nannetis: ex typ. Brown, 1782.
• Addenda AD Florae Nannetensis prodromum, cleaning magistro Francisco Bonamy . Nannetis: ex typ. Brown, 1785.