Pierre Joseph Garidel

[1] His father was Pierre Garidel, a lawyer, and his mother, Louise de Barthelemy.

Together with Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, he studied plants from Provence.

[2] Meanwhile, he called on the French nobility to take up botany as a hobby alongside hunting.

[3] In 1735, he published, Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence, which describes 1,400 plants.

[1][2] In the preface, he writes about the history of botany in Provence and the medicinal uses of plants.