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Guy-Crescent Fagon, the king's physician and botanist, noticed Sébastien Vaillant and made him his secretary. Vaillant was therefore able to devote himself to the study of plants for which he obtained unlimited access to the Royal Garden. Fagon appointed him director.
Vaillant (1669-1722) had been a student of Tournefort’s in the early 1690s and later became a demonstrator of plants at the Jardin, appointed to the post by Guy-Crescent Fagon (1638-1718), the chief physician of Louis XIV. In 1717 Vaillant had been asked to stand in, in the absence of the titular professor, Antoine de Jussieu, and give a lecture.
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After taking his degree in medicine in 1664, Fagon offered to procure plants for the garden, and through Antoine Vallot (1594–1671) the superintendent, who was also physician to the King, was...
Guy-Crescent Fagon, the king's physician and botanist, noticed Sébastien Vaillant and made him his secretary. Vaillant was therefore able to devote himself to the study of plants for which he obtained unlimited access to the Royal Garden.
Mar 1, 2022 · Sébastien Vaillant (26 May 1669 - 20 May 1722) French botanist and secretary to Guy-Crescent Fagon, the king's physician and botanist, who appointed him director of the Royal Garden.
87 [Guy-Crescent Fagon (born 11 May 1638, Paris; died 11 March 1718, Paris) a French physician and botanist, one time director of the Jardin du Roi and physician of Louis XIV. He lost his position as head physician after Louis XIV’s death, which was somewhat customary after a king died, but he also received criticism for how he had dealt with ...
Mar 30, 2017 · Guy-Crescent Fagon (1638-1718) was the physician of Louis XIV of France. He was made an honorary member of the Academie des sciences in 1669 and ran the Jardin du Roi until his death
