Jean-Paul de Rome d'Ardène

Jean-Paul de Rome d'Ardène
Born 25 January 1690
Mane (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
Died 5 December 1769(1769-12-05) (aged 79)
Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire
Occupation Botanist
Agronomist
Priest

Father Jean-Paul de Rome d'Ardène (25 January 1690 – 5 December 1769[1][2] (en 1779, according to the BNF[3]) in domaine d'Ardène in Saint-Michel (modern Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) was an 18th-century French botanist.

Origins

Jean-Paul de Rome d'Ardène was the son of Honoré de Rome sieur d’Ardène, commissaire des galères et inspecteur des bois et forêts de Provence[4] who had the Château d’Ardène built in 1686 and Antoinette Leroy, daughter of Jean Leroy, conseiller du Roi et contrôleur général de la marine du Levant et des galères de France.[5] His elder brother, Esprit-Jean de Rome d'Ardène (1684-1748) was a well known writer and fabulist.[6]

Life

An adolescent, Jean-Paul de Rome d'Ardène studyied rhetoric and philosophy at the Marseille College, then was admitted to the Oratory of Aix en Provence in 1708. In Arles he studied theology before teaching humanities in Marseille.[7] Frail, he was quickly relieved of his duties and in 1714, was allowed to retire and return to live on the lands of his family, in Ardène. Always a member of the Oratory of Aix while remaining in Ardène, he was ordained priest in 1718. He then devoted himself to botany and would write many books on growing flowers (Traité des renoncules (1746), Traité des jacinthes (1759), ...) which would experience great success with his contemporaries. In addition, making his entourage benefit of his knowledge of medicinal plants and passionate about their study, he published the Lettres sur l’exercice de la médecine[8] in 1759.

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References

  1. ↑ Joseph Billioud "Un agronome provençal du XVIIIe siècle : le Père Rome d'Ardène, Provence historique, Fascicule 54, T. 13,1963,p. 331-340". provence-historique.mmsh.univ-aix.fr. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Société de statistique, d'histoire et d'archéologie de Marseille et de Provence : Répertoire des travaux - Volumes 33 à 34 - Page 88, 1872". books.google.com. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Jean-Paul de Rome d'Ardène". bnf.fr. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  4. ↑ Gonzague de Rey : La famille Rome d'Ardène et ses alliances, Marseille (1883), mentioned by Joseph Billioud (revue Provence historique, T.13, 1963) and Recherches sur l'hospitalité de Notre-Dame d'Ardène et ses juspatrons, III. La Famille de Rome, pp.50-79, Marseille (1869)
  5. ↑ Charles Bourgeois "Le Père J.-P. de Rome d'Ardène, botaniste et agronome provençal (1690-1769). I, La vie, Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, 1969 Volume 57, pp. 463-472". persee.fr. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "Recueil de fables nouvelles, précédées d'un discours sur ce genre de poesie - Esprit-Jean de Rome d'Ardène, 1747". books.google.com. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  7. ↑ "Jean-Paul de Rome d'Ardène - Agronome et "phytothérapeute"". mane-en-provence.com. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  8. ↑ Père d'Ardène de l'oratoire, "Lettres intéressantes pour les mèdecins de profession". books.google.com. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  9. ↑ "Œuvres posthumes de Monsieur D'Ardene, associè a l'Academie des belles lettres de Marseille". worldcat.org. Retrieved 6 July 2016.

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