Comte de Buffon and France
Comte de Buffon was a French mathematician, biologist and scientist left behind an extraordinary cultural heritage. The first place to visit and connected with Buffon is the Jardin des Plantes, the botanical garden south of the Seine in Paris.
There visitors will see a special tree planted by Buffon in 1785 in the Jardin des Plantes. The scientist was also very powerful person in the court of King Louis XV, and as well as he dominated in shaping our knowledge of the natural world.
Just next to the garden is sitted The Grande Galerie de l’Evolution in the museum of National d’ Histoire Naturelle. The building is 19 century constructure with a translucent glass ceiling and galleries supported by handsome row columns.Some of the exhibitions display the excitement and appeal of early natural history.
So a better place to get known Buffon’s life is his country home, a little over an hour from Paris by the high speed train. Actually Buffon spent half in the year in the city (Paris) and other half in his country-village Montbard, where wrote Histoire Naturelle for which he become famous. In Montbard is good to visit The Forge, which Buffon built and still survives.
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