Marc Antoine Louis Claret of Tourrette

Marc Antoine Louis Claret (of Fleurieu) of Tourrette is a Botaniste French, born the August 11th 1729 with Lyon and died in 1793.

His/her father, Jacques-Annibal Claret of Tourrette (1692-1776) belongs to the Lyons magistrature and was recently year by Louis XV. This adviser at the court of the currencies devotes his leisures to the natural history. By its many herborizings, it constitutes important a Herbier.

He works with Carl von Linné (1707-1778) and Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) and is member of the Academy of Science in 1772. He is in particular the author of Chloris lugdunensis (1785). With the abbot François Rozier (1734-1793), it makes appear the elementary Démonstrations of botany in 1776. He is the founder of the Botanical garden of which he entrusts the direction to Rozier. He publishes in 1761, a Mémoire on the plants . He studies the foams and the mushrooms of the region of Lion. He studies the influence of the climate, manures and the ploughings on the plants which grow under its eyes, and makes an effort, by the alliance of the natural history, chemistry and physics, to increase the value of the exploited ground.

Publications

Voyage to the Pilat mount in the province of the Lyonese, container of the observations on the natural history of this mountain, & of the neighbouring places; followed reasoned catalog of the plants which grow there. (Regnault, Avignon, 1770).
elementary Demonstrations of botany. (At Jean-Marie Bruyset, Lyon, 1773).

Source

Pierre Jacquet (1999). An ignored Lyons botanist of the eighteenth century: Marc-Antoine Claret of Tourrette (1729-1793). Monthly bulletin of the Company linnéenne of Lyon , 68 (4): 77-84.

External bond

Its genealogy on the site geneanet samlap

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