Amédée Masclef

Amédée Masclef (9 August 1858 Béthune[1] – 1916)[2] was a French abbé and botanist best known for his three-volume 400-plate work 'Atlas des plantes de France' published in Paris in 1891 and re-issued in 1893.

[5] He was Professor of Natural Sciences at the Petit séminaire d'Arras and was a member of the Société botanique de France from 1885.

Notice sur l'herbier du musée de la ville d'Arras (1885)'.

[8] Upon leaving the Petit séminaire he took up the position of curator of Gaston Bonnier's herbarium, and in 1905 was recorded as living in Champlan.

Amédée and Leonie had one daughter, Louise Fanny Léonie Masclef, who married one Gommerat.