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Visitors to the 5th arrondissement of Paris should cross the Rue de Tornefort with care. It was here that the French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tornefort met his untimely death under the wheels of a carriage on the 28th of December 1708 at the age of 52 years. As the professor of botany at the Parisien Jardin des Plantes, Tornefort undertook numerous expeditions in Western Europe, in particular to the Pyrenean mountains to collect species for the extensive collection being compiled in Paris.
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Flannery, J.A., Smith, K.M. (2015). Landscapes of Cohabitation. In: Eco-Landscape Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07206-7_18
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