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Categories: 1669 births | 1722 deaths | Botanists with author abbreviations | French botanists | Mycologists | Pre-Linnaean botanists Sébastien Vaillant(Redirected from Sebastien Vaillant)
Sébastien Vaillant (May 26, 1669 - May 20, 1722) was a French botanist. Vaillant was born at Vigny, Val d'Oise. He studied medicine at Pontoise, and then moved to Paris to practice as a surgeon, where he studied botany at the Jardin des Plantes under Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. Vaillant was appointed to the staff of the Jardin des Plantes in 1702, becoming sub-demonstrator of plants in 1708. The standard botanical author abbreviation Vaill. is applied to species he described. |
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