Jacques-Louis Hénon

Jacques-Louis Hénon (31 May 1802 in Lyon – 28 March 1872 in Montpellier) was a French republican politician.

[2] On 4 September 1870 he proclaimed the French Third Republic in the city hall of Lyon.

The Rue Jacques Louis Hénon (Lyon, 4ème arrondissement) is named in his honor.

[2] Also, in 1849, Alfred Moquin-Tandon named a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Amaranthaceae, from Madagascar, Henonia also in his honor.

[3] Also Henoonia, a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Solanaceae from Cuba is also thought to be named after him.