biography
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Aublet, Jean Baptiste (Christophe Fusée)
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pronunciation:
[ohblay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1720–78)
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| biography:
| Botanist and humanist, born in Salon, NE France. He spent over 10 years in Mauritius and the French West Indies, where he established gardens of medicinal plants, and made extensive collections in French Guiana, founding forest botany in tropical America. He was also the first secular slavery abolitionist. |
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