Jules Rieffel

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Jules Rieffel was born with Barr in Alsace, in 1806. The chance of a voyage in Brittany, made known to him a Nantes ship-owner, Haentjens which had a surface of 500 hectares with Nozay. But this property was all in covered moors of gorses, heathers and brooms. Jules Rieffel agreed to undertake and direct the clearing of this field, thus it was brought, shortly after 1830, to create by stages: “The School of agriculture of Large-Jouan”, become agricultural Institute in 1849, first national school of French agriculture. Jules Rieffel was the enthusiastic director of 1830 with 1881. He developed an agricultural science based on the experimental results. Rieffel was combined with the family Bourgault-Ducoudray, which links itself with that of Adolphe Billault, deputy and future minister of Napoleon III. In 1840, Rieffel founded the important review: Agriculture of the west of France. This review radiated in all France and beyond. Rieffel has its tomb in a vault, in the middle of a bouquet of pines, on the moor of Limerdin. In 1894, the School of Large-Jouan was transferred to Rennes, with the Three-Cross. It is today ENSAR, 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of Agronomy of Rennes.

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