Guy de La Brosse

Guy de La Brosse (1586 – 1641 in Paris), was a French botanist, medical doctor, and pharmacist.

Guy de La Brosse, medical doctor to Louis XIII, obtained royal permission on 6 July 1626 to found, in Paris, a herb garden destined to culture plants useful to medicine to replace those of Montpellier created by Henri IV.

But this project took some time to come to fruition since the Faculty of Medicine in Paris considered the garden as competition to their activities, because La Brosse wished to teach botany and chemistry there.

The heirs of Guy de La Brosse sold the copper plates to a boiler-maker for the weight of the metal.

Guy-Crescent Fagon (1638–1718), successor to de La Brosse in the post of Supervisor of the Jardin du Roi, could, after much effort, only locate fifty of them.