François Bonamy (10 May 1710 in

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– 5 January 1786 in Nantes) was a French botanist and physician. He was the grandfather of adventurer Paul de la Gironière (1797–1862). Frabonamy

In 1735 he obtained his medical doctorate, and for nearly fifty years, he taught classes in botany. At the

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, he served as regent to the medical faculty, as ''procureur général'' and as an academic rector. In 1737 he was named ''directeur de l'établissement'' of the '' Jardin des plantes de Nantes''. At his own expense, he maintained an botanical garden containing exotic plants.Université de Nantes
Qui est François Bonamy ? He was a founding member of the ''Société d'agriculture de Bretagne'' and a corresponding member of the ''Académie des belles-lettres, sciences et arts de La Rochelle''.Prosopo
Sociétés savantes de France The botanical genus '' Bonamia'' (family

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) was named in his honour by

Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars (5 November 1758, Saint-Martin-de-la-Place, Bournois – 12 May 1831, Paris) was a French botanist known for his work collecting and describing orchids from the three islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and R� ...

Published works

* ''Tentamen therapeuticum de bechicis'', J. Martel, Snr., 1776. * ''Florae Nannetensis prodromus'', Brun, 1782. * ''Une épidémie au siècle dernier d'après les notes de François Bonamy'', Commentaires par le Dr. Eugène Bonamy. - Nantes : Mme Ve Mellinet, 1886.

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