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Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden

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Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
Dominique Alexandre Godron Garden
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Sunday10am - 6pm
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday10am - 6pm
Thursday10am - 6pm
Friday10am - 6pm
Saturday10am - 6pm


Dominique Alexandre Godron was a French physician, botanist, geologist and speleologist born in the town of Hayange, in the département Moselle. Godron studied medicine at the University of Strasbourg, and during his career distinguished himself in natural sciences as well as in the field of medicine. In 1854 he became dean and professor of natural history to the Faculty of Sciences at Nancy. Here he established a natural history museum and reorganized its botanical garden . Among his numerous writings were a publication on the flora of the Lorraine region of France called Flore de Lorraine , and the three-volume Flore de France, a work on flora native to France and Corsica that was co-written with botanist Jean Charles Marie Grenier . In addition to his botanical works, he published a number of studies in the field of ethnology.Before Mendel, he discovered the main features of hybridation. In de l'Espece et des races dans les êtres organises he also demonstrated that hybridization in the vegetal world was, against the dominant thinking at the time, similar to hybridization in the animal world. He finally demonstrated the unity of mankind in his book dedicated to our species.
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