François Vautier

François Vautier (sometimes written Vauthier), (born in 1589 in Arles; died on 4 July 1652 in Paris) was a French medical doctor and botanist.

He was Marie de' Medici's personal physician and close friend, which displeases Richelieu and lands him in prison.

[2] He was appointed First Physician to King Louis XIV in 1646.

He treated Monsieur, the only brother of Louis XIV, which earned him the abbey of Saint-Taurin d' Évreux.

He was superintendent of the King's Garden and introduced the teaching of anatomy there.Vautier was one of the first to use cinchona bark.