About Louis Auguste Deschamps
Lived 1765 – 1842 (aged 76–77). Louis Auguste Deschamps was a French explorer, surgeon, botanist and naturalist.
Louis-Auguste Deschamps (22 August 1765 in Saint-Omer – 25 February 1842 in Saint-Omer) was a French botanist and surgeon, who specialised in the flora of Java and Mexico. He is probably best known for his description of the World's largest flower- Rafflesia, when he was in Java between 1791 and 1794. However, the British took his papers that were kept in the ship La 'Recherche' he was on that was harboured in Surabaya because they were fighting the French there, and he returned home without those papers in 1798.
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Who was Louis Auguste Deschamps?
French botanist and explorer (1765-1842)
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Louis Auguste Deschamps was born in 1765 in Saint-Omer.
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Louis Auguste Deschamps died in 1842 in Paris.
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Louis Auguste Deschamps was an explorer, surgeon, botanist and naturalist.
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Louis Auguste Deschamps was French.
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