Leonce de Lambertye

Leonce de Lambertye is a Botaniste French, born with Montlucon on February 14th 1810, died with Chaltrait (district of Épernay) on August 30th 1877. He is the author of the Catalog of the vascular plants of the Marne (1877).

Resulting from a noble family which counted several large officers of the old court of the dukes of Lorraine, combined so that there is of more considerable in Champagne, Lambertye could, with the example of her ancestors, to aspire to the loads which get the honors; he preferred the study of the natural science and the botany in particular, of which he was one of the most authorized Masters.

There are of him several works on this science, inter alia: Description of the vascular plants of the department of the Marne , with a geological map and botanical; Glance on the botany and the Holy-Ménehould geology of the district of .

The memories of the Société of Agriculture of the Marne contain an infinity of work and reports/ratios submitted by him.

It popularized around him the horticulture, the vine growing and the size of the fruit trees, either in writings, or while melting or by encouraging many companies of horticulture, in particular that of Épernay, of which he was the president.

It left a crowd of small treaties of practical and detailed gardening for the inhabitants of the campaigns.

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