Louis Marie Aubert Of Small-Thouars

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Louis Marie Aubert Of Small-Thouars the , or Of Small Thouars , is a Botaniste French born the November 5th 1758 with the Château of Boumais close to Saumur and dead the May 12th 1831 with Paris.

It makes studies with the military royal Collège of the Arrow. It was to accompany his brother Aristide with research by Jean-François of Perugia, but, left after him, it unnecessarily tried to join it with the island of France, where it arrived too late and was obliged to remain. On the way, in 1793, it missed being found involuntarily abandoned on the archipelago Tristan da Cunha, where it spent one night only by thinking its ship left without him.

Blocked in the south-west of the Indian Ocean by the circumstances, he studied the flora of the area. For this period, it accepted the visit of the Expédition Baudin and led for its members a Herborisation three days after their arrival for a Escale of a few days. Member of the scientific Voyage of exploration, Jean-Baptiste Bory of Saint-Vincent took part and bound in it friendship with the civil Commissaire of the government Joseph Pierre Leboux-Dumorier to this occasion where 55 species as well as a key of determination are briefly described. He was allowed this same year with the Academy of Science the April 10th 1820.

Starting from 1806, it directed the seedbed of the Roule. In addition to the work already quoted, it published several writings on the Botanique and the Agriculture: it supported with the Academy of Science, on the formation of the layers of wood, a famous theory, which was highly discussed.

Marie Jean Pierre Flourens pronounced his Éloge with the Institut of France.

See too

Abel Aubert Of Small-Thouars the, sailor.
Aristide Aubert Dupetit-Thouars, his brother, sailor.

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