Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Quesnel, Dieudonné-Gabriel Louis

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Quesnel, Dieudonné-Gabriel Louis

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Edition of 1900. No confirmation of this person's existence outside of Appletons' and derived sources has as yet been located, but there is also no verifiable source which states the person is one of Appletons' fictitious entries. Use this information with EXTRA CAUTION. Suspicious due to spelling errors in the titles of the alleged literary works. There is also mention of his military service in Tobago in 1780, but the French invaded Tobago on April 24, 1781, and occupied the island on May 2, 1781.

565385Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography — Quesnel, Dieudonné-Gabriel Louis

QUESNEL, Dieudonné-Gabriel Louis, (kay-nel), South American botanist, b. near Cayenne in 1749; d. in Cayenne in 1801. He received his education in France, served for several years in the army, and fought at Tobago in 1780. After the conclusion of peace he returned, with the brevet of major, to his estate in Guiana, and, at the suggestion of Malouet (q. v.), established a model farm, and adopted new methods of cultivation. For several years he carried on his agricultural experiments, but, unwise management proving detrimental to his fortune, he abandoned agriculture and became a traveller. He explored French Guiana and the northern provinces of Brazil, and formed an important herbarium, which is now deposited in the museum of Cayenne. Among his works are “Herbier expliqué des plantes de la Guiane” (2 vols., Cayenne, 1792); “Description de la flore Guianaise” (1795); and “Journal de voyage à travers les Pampas” (1796)..