François Cagnet (fl.1790–1801) was the personal gardener to botanist André Michaux. Cagnet was invited to join the Nicolas Baudin voyage of scientific discovery (1800–1804) in the corvettes Géographe and Naturaliste to chart the coast of New Holland (Australia), make scientific observations and collect natural history specimens. This was possibly the largest such voyage of its kind in the early nineteenth century, with a team of 22 savants (scientists, artists and engineers). He was a junior gardener in a team of 5 gardeners that served on the voyage, the others being Antoine Sautier, Merlot (listed as 'an African') and Antoine Guichenot, all under the supervision of Head Gardener Anselme Riedlé. Cagnet left the expedition with Michaux at the second landfall, Ile de France (Mauritius) as a result of dissatisfaction with Baudin's authoritarian manner and other concerns.[1]