Jules Pierre Fourreau

Jules Pierre Fourreau (25 August 1844, Lyon – 16 January 1871, Beaune) was a French botanist.

[1] As a young man he worked as an assistant to botanist Alexis Jordan (1814-1897) in Lyon.

Beginning in the mid-1860s, he began collecting plants throughout southeastern France (Ardèche, the Alps, Provence, et al.).

In November 1870 he enlisted in the Légionnaires du Rhône, and on 16 January 1871 he died in a hospital in Beaune as a result of injuries received at the Bataille de Nuits (18 December 1870).

In 1867 he introduced the genus name Mistralia (family Thymelaeaceae) in honor of poet Frédéric Mistral.