Jules Gravereaux

Jules Gravereaux (May 1st 1844 with Vitry-sur-Seine - March 23rd 1916 with Paris) is a French rhodologist, who in particular created the first modern rosery, the Roseraie of the Valley-of-Marne.

Biography

Jules Gravereaux was born in Rennes on May 1st, 1844 with Vitry-sur-Seine, of Jean Narcisse Gravereaux, carpenter, and of Marie Henriette Gervais.

In March 1856, it enters in training in a hosier of the street of the Vat. It is employed two years later in a drapery, at Aristide Boucicaut and his wife. In 1852, Mr. and Mrs. Boucicaut buy the waste grounds located opposite their drapery and make there build Bon Marché. Jules Gravereaux starts in Bon Marché in 1864 as simple salesman then progresses little by little. After a passage to the store of Louvre and the store of Peace (1866-1870), it returns to Bon Marché like “First” to the ray " Gloves, Sunshades and Eventails" ; it enters to the board of directors in 1871.

In August 1873, he marries Laure Thuillier.

Mrs. Boucicaut does not have a heir and to its death, it bequeaths all its shares of Bon Marché to its employees according to their seniority. Present since the beginning, Jules Gravereaux inherits sufficiently to be able to take his retirement at 48 years.

In 1892, it buys a vast property with Haÿ. It develops a very important collection of pinks to with it. In 1899, he contacts the famous landscape designer Edouard André and together, they develop the first garden of the pink time dedicated to the S, a rosery.

In 1901, the ministry for Agriculture requires of him to study the harvest of the wild seedlings of the kind Rosa and the horticultural and industrial production of pinks with perfume. It leaves in the Balkans to carry out this mission. Of return with Haÿ, it wishes to create new pinks with perfume, which would facilitate in particular the processes of distillation. He works on hybrids of Rosa rugosa and develops the pink " Rose with perfume of Haÿ".

Jules Gravereaux took part in the reconstitution of the collection of pinks of Joséphine de Beauharnais with the Château of Malmaison. He is also at the origin of the rosery of the Parc of Trifle as well as that of the Elysium.

He was decorated with the Légion of honor and was proclaimed Commandeur of the agricultural merit to have developed the taste of the roseries and the trade of the pinks. In 1914, the city of Haÿ takes to the name of the Haÿ-the-Pinks.

Jules Gravereaux dies in Paris on March 23rd, 1916.

List partial of the publications

  • botanical Collection of the kind Rosa (1899).

  • Catalog of the pinks cultivated with Haÿ (1900).
  • Report/ratio on the culture of the pinks in the peninsula of Balkans (1901).
  • Pinks cultivated with Haÿ in 1902. Test of classification (1902).
  • Manual for the description of the rose trees (1905).
  • Pinks with perfume and the manufacture of the gasoline to the Rosery of Haÿ of 1901 to 1905 (1906).
  • the Rose in sciences, arts and the letters (1906).
  • Malmaison. Pinks of the Joséphine Empress. Edict. of Art and Literature. Paris. 1912.

See too

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External bonds

  • Site of the Rosery of the Valley-of-Marne
  • Departmental records of the Valley-of-Marne - Funds of the Museum of the Rose

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