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succulent in E/andonnaj, than in the moist meadows of So- 
logne, but it is not on that account the less acrid.” In 
1738, he was attached to the Infirmary of St. Grermaine-en- 
laye. Circumstances and his position developed his taste 
for Botany, and to this science he rendered great service. 
Called to the Court, he was appointed Professor of Botany. 
He was made chief Physician to the Eoyal Family, and 
latterly also to the King. Passionately fond as he was of 
studying nature’s fair flowers, and shrubs, and trees, he 
had an additional impulse given to the natural bent of his 
mind by being employed in superintending the laying out 
of the lovely gardens of Trianon, and also the gardens of 
Elizabeth, sister of Louis XVI. at Montreuil, near Versailles. 
Various other works did this gifted man publish besides his 
“ Observations on Natural History.” He lived to behold 
the fearful Eevolution, and the anarchy and bloodshed con- 
sequent thereon, and the untimely end of his patron Louis 
XVI. for he died in 1799. 
