Abstract

Remarkable studies have been conducted on the movement of plants from the Indies to France and the Jardin du Roi at Paris (today Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle). Researchers have seldom focused in detail on the links between the Île de France (now Mauritius) and the Gardens of Trianon during the reign of Louis XV.²2. Eighteenth century explorer-botanists referred to as Les Indes is what we recognize today as a vast geographic area in the Pacific. Scholars interested in bio-prospecting have established how France’s colonial ambitions informed this trade; however, less attention has focused on alternative networks of botanists, collectors, and members of the medical community who pursued their passion for plants. Botanical enthusiasts at the court of Versailles, inspired by the Louis XV’s patronage of his own botanical garden at the Petit Trianon, collaborating with the king’s gardeners, pursued a botanical exchange with planters in the Île de France. Focusing on a diverse set of documents, this essay reconstructs the networks of travelers and naturalists who were sufficiently enthusiastic about exotic plants to have sponsored a collection of them in expensive greenhouses, and examines their collective wish to enrich the royal collection with seeds and plants drawn from the first plant collection gardens set up in Mauritius at the time of the French East India Company.

摘要

人们对植物从印度群岛向法国和巴黎国王花园（现为国家自然历史博物馆）的迁移进行了出色的研究。研究人员很少详细关注路易十五统治时期法兰西岛（现毛里求斯）与特里亚农花园之间的联系。²2. 十八世纪的探险家植物学家将其称为“印度群岛”，即我们今天所认识的太平洋上广阔的地理区域。对生物勘探感兴趣的学者已经确定了法国的殖民野心是如何影响这种贸易的。然而，很少有人关注植物学家、收藏家和医学界成员的替代网络，他们追求对植物的热情。凡尔赛宫廷的植物爱好者受到路易十五对其位于小特里亚农宫的植物园的赞助的启发，与国王的园丁合作，与法兰西岛的种植者进行了植物学交流。本文着眼于一系列不同的文献，重建了旅行者和博物学家的网络，他们对外来植物充满热情，并在昂贵的温室中赞助了一系列外来植物的收集，