Claude Richard (botanist)
Claude Richard was born with Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer on December 7th, 1699. Wire of François-Antoine Richard, noble Irish of the continuation of the king d' Angleterre Jacques II Stuart exiled in France, and which had obtained the load of manager of the gardens of the castle before being appointed gardener as a chief of the Chancellerie of France under the chancellor of Aligre. It should however be noted that the name of Richard had been carried by the gardener as a chief of the Louvre at the time of the queen Catherine de Médicis. Claude Richard is called by Louis XV with the direction of the royal gardens of Versailles and creates the Botanical garden of the Petit Trianon which will be transformed later by Marie-Antoinette and whose collections were collected by the Botanical garden of Paris by the care of its grandson Louis Claude and of Carl von Linné. One of his/her daughters had married Dominique-Madeleine Moisy, gardener as a chief of the duke of Biron for which it created the garden of his Parisian hotel, today Musée Rodin. He dies in Saint-Germain on November 22nd, 1784.
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