Nicolas Joseph Thiéry de Ménonville

Nicolas Joseph Thiéry de Ménonville is Botaniste French, born the June 18th 1736 with Saint-Mihiel and died in 1780 with Port-au-Prince.

After studies of Right, it gives up the bar to be devoted to its passion: the Botanical .

It projects to naturalize the cochineal ( Dactylopius coccus (O. Costa, 1835)) used for production of dyeing, which does not exist whereas with the Mexico from where the Spaniards prevent it from leaving, in particular in the French colonies. In Mexico, being made pass for a Catalan doctor , he learns how art to raise it and plant the Nopal, the feeder plant of the cochineal. He manages to remove the cochineal and to transport it Saint-Domingue has where he succeeds in multiplying it in the garden which he had established with Port-au-Prince, under the name of Jardin of the king . It receives the title of botanist of the king shortly after his return of Mexico. Its breeding disappears after its death.

Publications

Treated culture of the nopal and education of the cochineal in the French colonies of America, preceded by a voyage in Guaxaca. Preface, Notes & Observations relating to the culture of the Cochineal (published by Veuve Herbault, Cape-French, 1786, republished in 1787). The work is supplemented, according to the catalog of the National library of France by its praise
Nopal (Paris, 1787).

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