The Jardin Dominique Alexandre Godron is a historic

botanical garden A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, an ...

located at 3 rue Sainte-Catherine, Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine,

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. It is open daily without charge. The garden was founded in 1758 by Stanisław Leszczyński, the last Duke of Lorraine, as an adjunct to the Royal College of Medicine. It occupies . It is the city's oldest botanical garden, and remained active as such until 1993 when its collections were transferred to the larger

Jardin botanique du Montet The Jardin botanique du Montet (27 hectares), sometimes also called the Jardin botanique de Nancy, is a major botanical garden operated by the ''Conservatoire et Jardins Botaniques de Nancy''. It is located at 100, rue du Jardin Botanique, Villers-l ...

outside the central city. It was named in honor of celebrated local botanist

Dominique Alexandre Godron Dominique Alexandre Godron (25 March 1807 - 16 August 1880) was a French physician, botanist, geologist and speleologist born in the town of Hayange, in the ''département'' Moselle. Godron studied medicine at the University of Strasbourg, and d ...

(1807-1880), who redesigned and reinvigorated the garden during his tenure as director, and now displays horticultural collections in its long, narrow beds.

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Un peu d'histoire ou l'origine de la botanique à Nancy

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