François Richard de Tussac
✓ Source-basedfallingFrench botanist and writer (1751-1837)
François Richard de Tussac, also known as the Chevalier de Tussac, was a French botanist and naturalist from a wealthy family with colonial holdings. He is noted for his four-volume Flore des Antilles, ou Histoire générale botanique, rurale et économique des végétaux indigènes des Antilles, published in Paris by F.
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François Richard de Tussac, also known as the Chevalier de Tussac, was a French botanist and naturalist from a wealthy family with colonial holdings. He is noted for his four-volume Flore des Antilles, ou Histoire générale botanique, rurale et économique des végétaux indigènes des Antilles, published in Paris by F. Schoell et Hautel, which is one of the earliest floras of the West Indies. He became senator for Guadeloupe in the Antilles and traveled widely through St. Domingue, Jamaica and Cuba. In his book Cri des Colons he opposed giving Blacks more legal rights.
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