Jean-François Durande

Jean-François Durande is a Médecin and a Botaniste French, born in 1732 with Dijon and died in January 1794 in this same city.

His/her father is prosecutor at the Parliament of Burgundy. Jean-François Durande studies the Médecine and settles with Dijon. He is married in Claudine born Tiran and a son, Claude-Auguste Durande (1764-1835), doctor also in Dijon and which will be several times mayor of the city. He receives the teaching of the Botanique exempted in the Botanical garden of the city after the refusal of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) and of Antoine Gouan (1733-1821). Among the pupils of Durande, it is necessary to quote Louis-Augustin Bosc d' Antic (1759-1828), Jacques-Nicolas Vallot (1771-1860) or Pierre Morland (1768-1837).

With Hugues Maret (1726-1786) and Louis-Bernard Guyton-Morveau (1737-1816), it makes appear the Éléments of theoretical and practical chymy (1778). It gathers its lessons in the elementary Notions of botanies (1781) where it is one of the first to follow the system of Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836). The following year, it makes appear a Flore of Burgundy (1782) where it describes 1.300 S.

Source

Benoit Dayrat (2003). Botanists and Flora of France, three centuries of discoveries. scientists Publication of the national Natural history museum of natural history: 690 p.

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