Clovis Thorel

Clovis Thorel, born April 28, 1833, in Hébécourt, Somme, France, died September 11, 1911, in Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, was a French botanist, explorer of Indochina and doctor.

Born in 1833 in Vers-Hébécourt, Thorel attended medical school from the age of 17, against the advice of his parents, modest textile workers[2] who wanted him to continue their trade.

Captain de Lagrée died and the exhausted and sick survivors reached Shanghai in June 1868, having covered 8,800 km in two years.

The last twenty years of his life, he devoted himself to the study of the thermal properties of the great source of Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, where he died in 1911.

[4] In 1908, botanist François Gagnepain published Neothorelia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants from Laos, belonging to the family Capparaceae and named in Thorel's honour.