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Gustave Prosper Vidal
Gustave Prosper Vidal (1835 – 21 September 1905, Plascassier) was a French botanist. His botanical specimens were collected entirely in France. Vidal was employed as a French civil servant collecting taxes for the ''Administration des Contributions directes''. He was promoted to the rank of ''Inspecteur'', working in Privas with considerable distinction. But, as soon as his years of service gave him the right to retire, he retired in order to collect plants and study botany. From 1884 until his death in 1905 he was a member of the ''Société Botanique de France''. In retirement he first lived in Nice and then moved to his property in Plascassier, where, in addition to his house, a number of buildings were reserved exclusively for his herbarium and his library. Due to his unceasing labor, both the herbarium and library acquired considerable value, with many specimens and documents excellently presented and classified. His herbarium and library were made available to botanists with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plascassier
Plascassier is located between Valbonne (2.8 km) and Grasse (7 km) and only 31 km away from Nice airport. Although bordered by several communes—Valbonne, Opio, Mouans-Sartoux and Châteauneuf-de-Grasse—it falls under the jurisdictional umbrella of Grasse. French singer Édith Piaf Édith Piaf (, , ; born Édith Giovanna Gassion, ; December 19, 1915– October 10, 1963) was a French singer, lyricist and actress. Noted as France's national chanteuse, she was one of the country's most widely known international stars. Pia ... died here on October 10, 1963. References {{authority control Villages in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contributions Directes
The contributions directes were a system of four taxes, also known as the ''quatre vieilles'', set up under the French Revolution. They were all direct taxes, willingly voted into existence by vote of the deputies, by contrast with the Ancien Régime, which mainly relied on indirect taxes. Three of them were set up in 1790 by the National Constituent Assembly: * the contribution foncière, on all lands ; * the contribution mobilière, on all income not derived from commerce or 'land' (with the latter including rent and industry) * the patente, which taxed the professions according to their external signs The fourth, the ''impôt sur les portes et fenêtres'' (comparable to the British window tax) was set up in 1798 by the French Directory. This one was not called a contribution, and was progressive. Until the First French Empire, these for direct taxes raised enough for the state budget, but the Napoleonic Wars led to the re-establishment of indirect taxation. {{DEFAULTSORT:Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privas
Privas (; oc, Privàs , also ) is a city located in France, in the department of Ardèche. With its 8,465 inhabitants (2019), it is the least populated prefecture (capital of a department). It was the location of the 1629 Siege of Privas. Today, Privas is known for the purée made from the local chestnuts, and for its sweetened marron glacé. History The earliest traces of the commune are attested in the hamlet of Lac where recent archaeological excavations have revealed a Roman villa dating to the beginning of the Empire, as well as a medieval burying-ground. Moulds for counterfeiting coinage found in the 19th century on the slopes of Mont-Toulon had not been interpretable as signifying a local centre of population. Privas possibly comes from the old Gallic word ''briva'' meaning thoroughfare, or more specifically a wooden causeway over a ravine or water. This may refer to a river crossing now spanned by the ''Pont Louis XIII'', just to the south of the town centre. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Société Botanique De France
The Société botanique de France (SBF) is a French learned society founded on 23 April 1854. At its inaugural meeting it stated its purpose as "to contribute to the progress of botany and related sciences and to facilitate, by all means at its disposal, the education and the work of its members" (Article 2 of the founding statutes). Foundation The creation of the society was a result of a meeting on 12 March 1854 of the following sixteen botanists, who became founding members: * Antoine François Passy (1792–1873) * Adolphe Brongniart (1801–1876), professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle * Joseph Decaisne (1807–1882), professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle * Horace Bénédict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1801–1863) * Count Hippolyte Jaubert (1798–1874) * Louis Graves (1791–1857), director general of forests * Vicomte de Noé * Timothée Puel (1812–1890) * Charles Philippe Robin (1821–1885), former Chief Inspector of Roads and Bridges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly 1 millionDemographia: World Urban Areas , Demographia.com, April 2016 on an area of . Located on the , the southeastern coast of France on the , at the foot of the |
Charles Flahault
Charles Henri Marie Flahault (3 October 1852 – 3 February 1935) was a French botanist, among the early pioneers of phytogeography, phytosociology, and forest ecology. The word '' relevé'' for a plant community sample is his invention. Early life and education Flahault was born in Bailleul, Nord, and received his Baccalauréat de Lettres at Douai in 1872, after which he became a gardener at the Jardin des Plantes de Paris. He was noticed by Joseph Decaisne (1807–1882), who gave him private lessons, after which he entered the Sorbonne in 1874 to study in the laboratory of Philippe Van Tieghem (1839–1914), obtaining his doctoral degree in biology in 1878. He continued his studies at Uppsala University in 1879 together with Gaston Bonnier. Career In 1881 joined the University of Montpellier where in 1883 he became professor of botany, and in 1890 he founded the ''Institut de Botanique''. The Swiss botanist Josias Braun-Blanquet was one of his students In 1888 Flahault was ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Foucaud
Julien Foucaud (2 July 1847, in Saint-Clément – 26 April 1904, in Rochefort) was a French botanist. From 1867 to 1885, he was an assistant teacher and teacher in several schools in the department of Charente-Maritime. In February 1885, he was appointed director of the naval botanical garden in Rochefort.Bulletin de la Société botanique de France ..., Volume 51 by Société botanique de France obituary In February 1878, he became a member of the '' |
Casimir Arvet-Touvet
Jean-Maurice Casimir Arvet-Touvet (1841–1913) was a French botanist born in Gières. His early botanical investigations involved species native to Dauphiné, publishing in 1871 ''Essai sur les plantes du Dauphiné''. Subsequently, he devoted his energies to research of the genus ''Hieracium'' (hawkweed). With his friend, Marie Clément Gaston Gautier (1841–1911), he conducted studies of ''Hieracium'' found in the Pyrenees and the Iberian Peninsula. With Gautier he issued a 20 booklet exsiccata series of the genus. During the last few years of his life he was involved with publication of the exsiccata series ''Hieraciorum praesertim Galliae et Hispaniae catalogus systematicus''. Selected publications * ''Essai sur les plantes du Dauphiné : diagnosis specierum novarum vel dubio praeditarum'', 1871. * ''Hieracium des Alpes françaises ou occidentales de l'Europe. Lyon, Genève, Bâle'' : Henri George lib. ; Paris : J. Lechevalier, 1888. * ''Hieraciotheca gallica et hispanic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provence
Provence (, , , , ; oc, Provença or ''Prouvènço'' , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It largely corresponds with the modern administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and includes the departments of Var, Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, as well as parts of Alpes-Maritimes and Vaucluse.''Le Petit Robert, Dictionnaire Universel des Noms Propres'' (1988). The largest city of the region and its modern-day capital is Marseille. The Romans made the region the first Roman province beyond the Alps and called it ''Provincia Romana'', which evolved into the present name. Until 1481 it was ruled by the Counts of Provence from their capital in Aix-en-Provence, then became a province of the Kings of France. While it has been part of France for more than 500 years, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelonnette
Barcelonnette (; oc, Barciloneta de Provença, also ; obsolete it, Barcellonetta) is a commune of France and a subprefecture in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It is located in the southern French Alps, at the crossroads between Provence, Piedmont and the Dauphiné, and is the largest town in the Ubaye Valley. The town's inhabitants are known as ''Barcelonnettes''. Toponymy Barcelonnette was founded and named in 1231, by Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence.Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, ''Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France'', Éd. Larousse, 1968, pp. 1693–1694. While the town's name is generally seen as a diminutive form of Barcelona in Catalonia, Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing point out an earlier attestation of the name ''Barcilona'' in Barcelonnette in around 1200, and suggest that it is derived instead from two earlier stems signifying a mountain, *''bar'' and *''cin'' (the latter of whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1835 Births
Events January–March * January 7 – anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on her second voyage, with Charles Darwin on board as naturalist. * January 8 – The United States public debt contracts to zero, for the only time in history. * January 24 – Malê Revolt: African slaves of Yoruba Muslim origin revolt in Salvador, Bahia. * January 26 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Auguste de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg, in Lisbon; he dies only two months later. * January 26 – Saint Paul's in Macau largely destroyed by fire after a typhoon hits. * January 30 – An assassination is attempted against United States President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol (the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States). * February 1 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius. * February 20 – 1835 Concepción earthquake: Concepción, Chile, is destroyed by an earthquake; the resulting tsunami destroys the neighboring city of Talcahua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
