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French botanist

Pierre Alfred Déséglise (28 October 1823, Bourges – 13 December 1883, Geneva) was a French botanist.^[1]

He was a student of Alexandre Boreau (1803–1875), with whom he botanized and collected plants in the department of Cher and surrounding areas. In the midst of hardship in 1871, he relocated to Geneva, where in 1874 he began work as an assistant curator at the Conservatoire Botanique. At the time of his death, his collection of roses were sent to the herbarium at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.^[2]

In his botanical studies, he focused on plants from the genera Rosa, Mentha and Thymus.^[2] He was the author of the following works:

• Descriptions de quelques espèces nouvelles du genre Rosa; Extrait du Billotia. (1864) – Descriptions of some new species from the genus Rosa.
• Catalogue raisonnè ou Énumèration mèthodique des espèces du genre rosier pour l'Europe, l'Asie et l'Afrique, spècialement les rosiers de la France et de L'Angleterre; Genève, Mentz, (1877) – Catalogue raisonné; methodi
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  FALLOUX DU COUDRAY, Frédéric Alfred Pierre, comte de

  Frédéric Falloux du Coudray was born in Angers on 7 May, 1811, into a family of merchants enobled by Louis XVIII in 1825 for  their monarchical and clerical zeal. After studying at the college in Angers, Frédéric came up to Paris, and it was here that he made his entrance into society via Madame Swetchine, a Russian convert to Catholicism, who held a salon and who oversaw the young man's political education. At this time he moved in liberal, clerical circles, frequenting the likes of Montalembert and Lacordaire. He also began writing, publishing a history of Louis XVI in 1840, clearly marked by its excessively clerical position.
  
  In 1842 he stood (unsuccessfully) for election as Député for the Maine-et-Loire département. Four years later he he stood for a second time, and on winning he took his seat in the Chambre amongst the legitimists championing the cause of freedom in education. Rallying to the Second Republic, he was elected to the Constituante, and it was as a direct result of his report that the “atel