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L'ouverture du Jardin Royal de Paris, pour la demonstration des plantes medecinales.

Paris: Jacques Dugast, 1640.

La Brosse founded the Jardin des Plantes (originally Jardin du Roi), the first botanical garden in Paris. It was the second garden of this type in France, after the Jardin des plantes de Montpellier founded in 1593. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

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Entry Number#13346
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/15617
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLlouvreture-du-jardin-royal-de-paris-pour-la-demonstration-des-plantes-medecinales

Geographic Context

Publication place: Paris

Mentioned in annotation: Montpellier