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Charles François Brisseau de Mirbel

1776–1854

French botanist. Head gardener at Malmaison before entering the service of Louis Bonaparte, king of Holland, in 1806. Appointed professor-administrator of the Jardin des plantes, 1829. Foreign member, Royal Society of London, 1837.

Source

DSB.

Bibliography

DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.

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