Marc Antoine Louis Claret de La Tourrette
Encyclopedia
Marc Antoine Louis Claret de La Tourrette (11 August 1729, Lyon
– 1793) was a French botanist. He corresponded with Rousseau and his official botanical abbreviation is Tourr.
, and Marc's brother was the navigator Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu
.
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
– 1793) was a French botanist. He corresponded with Rousseau and his official botanical abbreviation is Tourr.
Family
His father, Jacques-Annibal Claret de La Tourrette (1692-1776), belonged to Lyon's magistrature and was ennobled by Louis XVLouis XV of France
Louis XV was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death. He succeeded his great-grandfather at the age of five, his first cousin Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, served as Regent of the kingdom until Louis's majority in 1723...
, and Marc's brother was the navigator Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu
Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu
Charles Pierre Claret, comte de Fleurieu was a French explorer, hydrographer and politician. He was Minister of the Navy under Louis XVI, and a member of the Institut de France, as well as the brother of the botanist Marc Antoine Louis Claret de la Tourette.-Ancien Regime:Fleurieu was born in Lyon...
.
Works
- Voyage au mont Pilat dans la province du Lyonnais, contenant des observations sur l'histoire naturelle de cette montagne, & des lieux circonvoisins ; suivi du catalogue raisonné des plantes qui y croissent. (Regnault, Avignon, 1770).
- Démonstrations élémentaires de botanique. (Chez Jean-Marie Bruyset, Lyon, 1773).
Source
- Pierre Jacquet (1999). Un botaniste lyonnais méconnu du dix-huitième siècle : Marc-Antoine Claret de La Tourrette (1729-1793). Bulletin mensuel de la Société linnéenne de Lyon, 68 (4), p. 77-84.
- "Éloge de M. de Fleurieu" , by M. de Bory , 1776 in "Manuscrits de la bibliothèque de Lyon ou notices sur leur ancienneté, de Antoine-François Delandine"
- Almanach astronomique et historique de la ville de Lyon et des provinces, 1787, par Aimé de la Rohe, p. 88.