The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Curé

Letters 89 to 125 cover nearly three years: beginning in December of 1785, when Chaix received separate copies of his catalogue; and ending in late 1788, by which time the first part of Villars’ third and final volume had been published. The second part of the third volume would be delayed until the autumn of 1789. By then, the beginning of the French Revolution had intervened to complicate the lives of our two botanists most drastically. [1785–1788]

The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Curé ◽

10.1007/978-94-011-5490-1_6 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 161-218

Author(s):

Roger L. Williams

Keyword(s):

French Revolution ◽

The Third ◽

Final Volume ◽

The French Revolution

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Letters thirty-one to forty-eight were addressed to Monsieur Villars, Docteur en Médecine in Le Noyer, but sometimes in nearby St.-Bonnet. They cover the months after the publication of his prospectus in April of 1779 until his departure in late 1781 to assume a new post in Grenoble. In 1780, his stipend was doubled to 1000 livres by the intendant, no doubt in compensation for a new course in botany that villars would inaugurate in March of 1780. That he left his wife and children in Le Noyer at the end of 1781, returning for visits on holidays, may mean that he did not anticipate a lengthy tenure in Grenoble.[1779–1781]

The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Curé ◽

10.1007/978-94-011-5490-1_4 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 58-87

Author(s):

Roger L. Williams

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Letters 126 to 170 cover the final decade of Chaix’s life. While he remained concerned to correct errors in the three published volumes of the flora, his initial letter in this period, 13 October 1788, provides evidence that he was aware of, and reading about,the constitutional crisis. After the pending storm broke in 1789, both Chaix and Villars would have to cope with the course of political change and dislocation, as they both held titles, curé and médecin du roi, that eventually drew the attention of enemies of the old régime. The reader will find documents illustrative of Chaix’s response, and ultimate plight, intruded among his letters to Villars where appropriate. [1788-1799]

The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Curé ◽

10.1007/978-94-011-5490-1_7 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 219-280

Author(s):

Roger L. Williams

Keyword(s):

Political Change ◽

Initial Letter ◽

Old Regime

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Letters one to ten are addressed to Monsieur Dominique Villars, student of surgery at the Hospital of the Father of Charity in Grenoble.[1772–1774]

The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Curé ◽

10.1007/978-94-011-5490-1_2 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 12-27

Author(s):

Roger L. Williams

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Letters forty-nine to eighty-eight cover four years: beginning in late 1781 with Villars’ move from Le Noyer to Grenoble to accept appointment as Medécin titulaire de l’hôpital militaire breveté du Roi, ending in late 1785 when the initial volume ofHistoire des plantes du Dauphiné; was in press. The new position brought Villars an additional 800 livres a year, as he was privileged to retain the pension of 1000 livres granted by the intendant. This recognized both his continuing work in botany and his need to pay for a second domicile in Grenoble. Even though Villars continued to give his annual series of botanical lectures, which would seem to have been a justification for additional remuneration, his relative wealth seems to have sparked jealousy within the small medical staff To make matters more uncomfortable for him, he found a disagreeable rivalry between the physicians and surgeons of the city and the Brothers of Charity who administered the hospital for the crown, led by Father Dominique Durand, a surgeon.278 One can only surmise that, under such circumstances, the continuing peaceful and congenial association with Father Chaix provided Villars with more than a valued botanical collaboration. [1781–1785]

The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Curé ◽

10.1007/978-94-011-5490-1_5 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 88-160

Author(s):

Roger L. Williams

Keyword(s):

Medical Staff ◽

Annual Series ◽

Initial Volume ◽

Relative Wealth ◽

Botanical Collaboration ◽

The City

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The Setting

The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Curé ◽

10.1007/978-94-011-5490-1_1 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 5-11

Author(s):

Roger L. Williams

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Postscript

The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Curé ◽

10.1007/978-94-011-5490-1_8 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 281-286

Author(s):

Roger L. Williams

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Letters eleven to twenty-nine were addressed to Monsieur Villars, Surgeon, residing at his home in Le Noyer, but botanizing frequently as authorized, as he prepared for the publication of the prospectus of his flora. He would soon discover that the continuing patronage of the intendant, the renewal of his pension had been opposed by the religious order where he had interned in Grenoble, and that success breeds jealousies. During the summer of 1774, he made a trip into Lower Dauphiné, Provence, and Languedoc with Dr. Clappier. At Montélimar, they examined the herbaria of Dr. Pierre Garidel and the Chicoyneau family, then possessed by Dr. Jean-Joseph Menuret de Chambaud. They examined the rich collections (both herbaria and library) of Jean-François Séguier at Nîmes. At Montpellier they saw the collections of Antoine Gouan and Pierre Cusson. They were able to botanize around Avignon, Aix, Marseille, Toulon, and Hyères. The long trip accounts for the substantial hiatus in Chaix’s correspondence that summer.[1774–1779]

The Letters of Dominique Chaix, Botanist-Curé ◽

10.1007/978-94-011-5490-1_3 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 28-57

Author(s):

Roger L. Williams

Keyword(s):

Religious Order ◽

The Rich

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