Jacques Philippe Martin Cels
id:
jacques-philippe-martin-cels-231-1968540
title:
Jacques Philippe Martin Cels
text:
Jacques Philippe Martin Cels was a French botanist specializing in horticulture. Cels was born in Versailles. He was a duty collector at the gates of Paris. Ruined when the French Revolution abolished his position, he started a botanical garden in which he cultivated foreign plants for sale, contributing to the growing public appetite for exotic flowers. He received and acclimatized numerous North American plants brought back by André Michaux and Louis-Augustin Bosc d'Antic. He strove to introdu
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
French horticulturalist (1740–1806)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Philippe_Martin_Cels
date created:
2009-01-08T00:44:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T22:53:33Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q3159760","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3159760"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Campanula_tomentosa.jpg","width":565,"height":850}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16