François of Buysson

See also: Buysson

François - Charles, count of Buysson , is a French botanist born on April 20th, 1825 with Paray-under-Briailles (To combine) and deceased on March 25th, 1906 with Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme).

He was the son of the count Julien of Buysson and his wife Pauline de Bonneval.

After having grown in the family property of Vernet located on the commune of Broût-Vernet (To combine), where it in particular was subject to the influence of his maternal uncle, André de Bonneval, who had founded over there a school of agriculture based on the most modern techniques of the time, François of Buysson worked during two years with the general ledger of the ministry for Finances in Paris where it was named on July 2nd, 1846. Of royalist conviction, he resigned of this function on May 31st, 1848, after the inversion of the Monarchie of July.

Withdrawn with the castle of Vernet, it was impassioned for botany and made build a greenhouse on its property to make there push orchises of varied species. In 1878, it made appear a book on the culture of the orchises whose manuscript had been rewarded with the International exhibition for Cologne in 1875 and who is always regarded as a reference book.

François of Buysson was one of the founders of the review Orchidophile .

Its name was given to several species orchises, like the Angraecum buyssonii or the Phalaenopsis buyssoniana .

Married in 1855 in Mathilde de Montaignac de Chauvance, it had three children of which the entomologists Henri of Buysson (1856-1927) and Robert of Buysson (1861-1946).

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