Hippolyte François Jaubert

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Count Hippolyte François Jaubert was a French politician and botanist born in Paris on 28 October 1798, died in Montpellier (Hérault) on 5 December 1874.

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The son of François Hippolyte Jaubert, killed in the battle of Aboukir (1798), and of Rosalie Mélanie Cheminade (d. 1817), landowner in Givry, in the commune of Cours-les-Barres (Cher), Hippolyte François Jaubert was adopted by his uncle, Count François Jaubert (1758-1822), State counsellor and régent of the Banque de France under the First Empire. Although he was passionate about natural history, his uncle put him to the study of law, while permitting him to follow the courses of René Desfontaines (1750-1831) and of Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836). He was called to the bar in 1821, when he inherited his uncle's title of Count[1] and an immense fortune. He was therefore able to buy substantial properties in Berry, ten hauts-fourneaux in Nièvre and in Cher, from where his mother's family originated, and became an administrator of the Compagnie du chemin de fer d’Orléans (Orléans railway company), whilst devoting himself to botany and politics. He married Marie Boigues (d. 1864), sister of Louis Boigues, maître de forges at Imphy (Nièvre) and creator of the town of Fourchambault. They had two children:

  • Louis Hippolyte François Jaubert, who was préfet of Sarthe;
  • Claire Mélanie Jaubert, who became by her marriage, Countess Benoist d'Azy.

He made a great journey in Auvergne and Provence in 1821, where he studied the flora and the geology of those regions along with his friend Victor Jacquemont (1801-1832). He participated in 1821 in the creation of an éphémère Société of natural history in Paris, together with Karl Sigismund Kunth (1788-1850), Adolphe Brongniart (1801-1876), Adrien de Jussieu (1797-1853), Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin (1796-1842) and Achille Richard (1794-1852). He financed the voyage of several naturalists to Asia, among whom Pierre Martin Rémi Aucher-Éloy (1793-1838).

Conseiller général of the Cher in 1830, then President of the conseil général, he became involved in politics at the time of the July Revolution and was successively elected député on 5 July 1831 in the 3rd collège of Cher (Saint-Amand)[2], on 21 June 1834[3], on 4 November 1837[4], on2 March 1839[5]. Initially close to the doctrinaires, he conquit rapidly, thanks to his speaking ability and the vivacity of his spirit, a situation in the Chambre and allied himself with Adolphe Thiers, who brought him into the Government in March 1840 as ministre des Travaux publics (Minister of Public Works). He resigned as Minister the following 28 October.

This nomination had obliged Count Jaubert to present himself again to the electors, who re-elected him on 28 March 1840[6]. In the general election of 9 July 1842, he was re-elected again[7], was briefly in opposition and voted against the affaire Pritchard. Named pair de France on 27 November 1844, he then joined the conservative majority.

He took no part in the French Revolution of 1848. Under the Second Empire, he withdrew from political life and became administrator of the factories of Fourchambault. Membre libre of the Académie des sciences in 1858, he participated in 1854 in the establishment of the Société botanique de France which he led in 1858 and 1866.

Standing as opposition candidate in Cher, he was rejected on 23 May 1869[8], but he was elected as representative for the Cher to the Assemblée nationale on 8 February 1871[9]. From that date on, he devoted himself almost exclusively to politics. During his few leisure moments, he occupied himself with botany.

À partir de l'herbier qu'il constitua and those of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, and with the aid of Édouard Spach (1801-1879), he published his Illustrationes plantarum orientalium (five volumes, Roret, Paris, 1842-1857).

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  • Benoît Dayrat, Les Botanistes et la Flore de France, trois siècles de découvertes, Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, 2003, 690 p.
  • François Pellegrin, « Un siècle de Société de botanique de France », Bulletin de la Société botanique de France, supplément au n° 101, 1954, pp. 17-46

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  1. ^ confirmed by lettres-patentes of 9 March 1826
  2. ^ 129 voix sur 224 votants et 297 inscrits contre 92 à M. Bonnaire
  3. ^ 177 voix sur 217 votants et 333 inscrits contre 41 à M. Michel de Bourges
  4. ^ 205 voix sur 251 votants et 372 inscrits
  5. ^ 229 voix sur 268 inscrits
  6. ^ 198 voix sur 214 votants
  7. ^ 201 voix sur 248 votants
  8. ^ 4,484 voix sur 24,158 votants
  9. ^ 4×10{{{1}}} sur 7 avec 50.928 voix sur 76.432 votants et 95.825inscrits