FIRST PERIOD. l3 



den was annexed to the appointment of first phy- 

 sician. Yautier, who was the personal enemy of 

 Fourqueux , wished to appoint an intendant of 

 his own choice , and experiencing some opposi- 

 tion, he took no farther interest in the garden. 

 From that time the establishment declined , the 

 plants perished for want of cultivation , and the 

 lectures were neglected. Yautier however per- 

 formed an essential service, by substituting a 

 course of anatomy for that bearing the name of 

 the interior of plants , which was intended to give 

 a general knowledge of their properties and uses. 



The place of superintendant , again vacant by 

 the death of Yautier in i652, was given to Yallot. 

 At this period Gaston d y Orleans , brother of Louis 

 the thirteenth, had established a botanical garden 

 at his palace of Blois , which had acquired much 

 celebrity by the works of M orison, and by draw- 

 ings of the most remarkable plants. This circum- 

 stance awakened the attention of Yallot , and he 

 appointed Denys Jonquet, a physician who culti- 

 vated plants at Saint-Germain-des-Pres, successor 

 to Robin. Jonquet was seconded by Fagon great 

 nephew of Guy de la Brosse , who, having been 

 brought up in the garden , had there acquired a 

 taste for botany , and who was much attached to 

 the scene of his infancy. This young man , since 

 become celebrated, travelled at his own expence 



