From Provincial Savant to Parisian Naturalist: The Recollections of Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824)

by Laurence Brockliss

Pierre-Joseph Amoreux of Montpellier was a Linnaean naturalist, agronomist and bibliographer whose adult life spanned the last decades of the ancien r gime, the French Revolution, the age of Napoleon and the Restoration. Thanks to his many publications and contacts, he was a well-known figure in his own day, not just in the Midi but in Paris and beyond. His autobiography, published here for the first time along with a substantial introduction,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0729412032
• ISBN13: 9780729412032
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
• Length: 456 Pages