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Michel Chauvet, « Foreword », Publications scientifiques du Muséum
Antoine Nicolas Duchesne is best known for his Histoire naturelle des fraisiers (Natural History of Strawberries 1766). At the time of publication of his strawberry drawings in this collection, I was struck by the fact that Duchesne’s ideas were those of a forerunner; he was indeed conscious of this status when qualifying himself as a ‘cultivator botanist’, and thus distinct from ‘deep naturalists’ (Chauvet 2003).With this work about cucurbits initiated immediately after the one on strawberries,...