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Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville

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French botanist (1739-1780)

FranceScientistsLived 1739 to 1780 · aged 41
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Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville, avocat at the Parlement of Paris, was a French botanist who volunteered to be sent to Mexico in 1776 to steal the cochineal insect valued for its scarlet dye. In his clandestine biopiracy, he worked without official papers and would have been ruthlessly treated had he been caught.

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Title page, Traité de la culture du nopal, 1787Title page, Traité de la culture du nopal, 1787Hand colored engraving of cochineal and nopal in Traité de la culture du nopal, 1787Hand colored engraving of cochineal and nopal in Traité de la culture du nopal, 1787

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Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville, avocat at the Parlement of Paris, was a French botanist who volunteered to be sent to Mexico in 1776 to steal the cochineal insect valued for its scarlet dye. In his clandestine biopiracy, he worked without official papers and would have been ruthlessly treated had he been caught. He succeeded in naturalizing the insect and the prickly pear (Opuntia) "nopal" cactus on which it depended in the French colony of Saint-Domingue.

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France
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1739 to 1780 · aged 41
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