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François Alexandre Pierre de Garsault was a
French botanist
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,
zoologist
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and painter. de Garsault was born on 16 April 1691 in
Aix-en-Provence
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,
France
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and died 3 August 1778 in
Paris
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, France. de Garsault was a member of the
French Academy of Sciences
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1691 births
1778 deaths
18th-century French botanists
18th-century French zoologists
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Pteridologists