Jean-André Thouin

Jean-André Thouin (* before 1745; † 1764 ) was a French court gardener . He was in 1745 under King Louis XV. appointed "Jardinier du Cabinet du Roi", the horticultural director of the " Jardin du Roi " (Royal Garden) in Paris , the city's first botanical garden laid out in 1635 by Guy de La Brosse and the predecessor of today's Jardin des Plantes . He held this position for almost two decades until his death. His older son André Thouin was appointed by the then administrative director of the Jardin du Roi, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Successor of the father ("Jardinier en Chef du Cabinet Royal d'Histoire Naturelle") and an important botanist, the younger son Gabriel Thouin a garden designer who is renowned throughout Europe. As was customary at the time, both sons started their careers with their father in the Jardin du Roi.