Jules Pierre Fourreau


Jules Pierre Fourreau was a French botanist.
As a young man he worked as an assistant to botanist Alexis Jordan in Lyon. Beginning in the mid-1860s, he began collecting plants throughout southeastern France. In November 1870 he enlisted in the Légionnaires du Rhône, and on 16 January 1871 he died in a hospital in Beaune as a result of injuries received at the Bataille de Nuits.
In 1864 he became a member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon. In 1867 he introduced the genus name Mistralia in honor of poet Frédéric Mistral. In 1869 he founded the Société de la Renaissance, serving as its first president.
The genus Fourraea is named in his honor.

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