Jean Charles Marie Grenier (1808–1875) was a French

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and naturalist who was a professor to the Faculty of Sciences at Besançon. In 1836 he received his doctorate in medicine, followed by his degree in sciences in 1844. At

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, he taught classes in natural history,

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and botany, being appointed

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of the school in 1869.Google Books
Journal 1823-1833 by Charles Weiss, Suzanne Lepin Grenier is credited with the description of hundreds of botanical species, many of them in collaboration with

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), a professor of natural history at Nancy. With Prof. Godron he published a three-volume work on French flora called ''Flore de France'' (1848–1856). Grenier was also author of ''Flore de la châine jurassique'' (Flora of the Jura Mountain chain) (1865–69).

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.'' 19th-century French botanists 1808 births 1875 deaths {{France-botanist-stub