Jean Michel Claude Richard
See also: Richard
Born on August 16th 1787 with Volon in Haute-Saône and died in 1868, Jean Michel Claude Richard is a Botaniste French, knight of the Légion of honor.
It created as from 1816 a botanical garden with the Senegal, first garden of test created in tropical Africa. The city, located at 90 km of Saint-Louis, will be called Richard-Toll (Toll means garden in wolof).
A few years later, it developed many species still present in current the Jardin of the State of Saint-Denis of the Réunion, of which he was the second director.
Work
Jean-Michel-Claude Richard leaves Senegal about 1825. It arrives at the island Bourbon towards 1831, where it succeeds Nicolas Bréon at the position of director of the garden which one then calls Jardin of Roy. It is under its direction that the latter will know its golden age.
It introduces into the colony 3.000 species of plants while studying specifically the Cryptogame S, the Fougère S and the Orchidée S. It would in addition have sent Lichen S of the Mauritius to the German specialist Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold (1828-1901).
Controversies
In 1841, when young the twelve year old slave Edmond Albius (1829-1880) discovers the process of artificial insemination of the Vanille, Jean Michel Claude Richard claims to him to have taught three or four years earlier to allot all the honors.
Its version creates a series of suspicions around the first, in spite of the support which bring to this one Féréol Marie Bellier of Beaumont (1759-1831), the naturalist Eugene Volcy Focard and certain Méziaires de Lepervanche. The doubts will be definitively isolated only at the end of the 20th century.
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