Narcisse Henri François Desportes (12 December 1776 – June 7, 1856) was a French

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and

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who was a native of

Champrond Champrond is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France. See also *Communes of the Sarthe department The following is a list of the 354 communes of the Sarthe department of France. The com ...

. He worked as an auditor to

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolog ...

at the ''

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'' in

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, and became

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of the ''Musée d'histoire naturelle'' in

Le Mans Le Mans (, ) is a city in northwestern France on the Sarthe River where it meets the Huisne. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Man ...

. He was the author of

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associated with the departments of

Sarthe Sarthe () is a department of the French region of Pays de la Loire, and the province of Maine, situated in the ''Grand-Ouest'' of the country. It is named after the river Sarthe, which flows from east of Le Mans to just north of Angers. It had ...

and

Mayenne Mayenne () is a landlocked department in northwest France named after the river Mayenne. Mayenne is part of the administrative region of Pays de la Loire and is surrounded by the departments of Manche, Orne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, and Ille-et ...

. In 1829 Desportes identified 2562 species and varieties of

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known to exist in France, of which he catalogued in a work titled ''Roses cultivées en France, au nombre de 2562 espèces ou variétés, avec la synonymie française et latine''.

Publications

* ''Roses cultivées en France, au nombre de 2562 espèces ou variétés, avec la synonymie française et latine''. Paris : Mme Huzard ; Le Mans : Pesche, 1829, XVII-124 p. Le faux-titre porte : ''Rosetum gallicum, ou Énumération méthodique des espèces et variétés du genre rosier, indigènes en France ou cultivées dans les jardins...'' * ''Biographie et bibliographie du

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et du département de la Sarthe, faisant suite au Dictionnaire statistique du même département''. Le Mans : Monnoyer, 1828, 2 parties en 1 vol. in-8 ̊ * ''Description topographique et hydrographique du diocèse du Mans...''. Le Mans : Pesche aîné, 1831, in-16, 119 p. * ''Description topographique et industrielle du diocèse du Mans, suivie du Guide du voyageur dans la

, la

et départements limitrophes,...'' 2e édition de l'ouvrage précédent, Le Mans : Pesche, 1838, in-16, VIII-140 p. * ''Flore de la Sarthe et de la Mayenne, disposée d'après la méthode naturelle, avec l'indication des propriétés médicales des plantes et leur usage dans les arts, ...'' Le Mans : C. Richelet, 1838, in-8 ̊, LX-528 p. * ''Bibliographie du Maine, précédée de la description... du diocèse du Mans, Sarthe et Mayenne''. Le Mans : Pesche, 1844, in-8 ̊, VIII-528 p. * ''Tableau méthodique et synonymique des fraisiers cultivés''. Le Mans : impr. de Julien, Lanier et Cie, 1854, in-8 ̊, 28 p., extrait du ''Bulletin de la Société d'horticulture de la Sarthe''

References

* ''This article is based on a translation of an article from the French Wikipedia.''

External links

Narcisse Henri François Desportes
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