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French botanist
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Louis-Auguste Deschamps (22 August 1765 in Saint-Omer – 25 February 1842 in Saint-Omer) was a French botanist and surgeon, who specialised in the flora of Java and Mexico. He is probably best known for his description of the World's largest flower- Rafflesia, when he was in Java between 1791 and 1794. However, the British took his papers that were kept in the ship La 'Recherche' he was on that was harboured in Surabaya because they were fighting the French there, and he returned home without those papers in 1798.

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  1. Hocquette, Maurice (1970). Louis-Auguste Deschamps, 1765-1842: sa vie, son œuvre (in French). Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  2. Steenis, Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan; Steenis-Kruseman, M. J. van; Backer, Cornelis Andries (1954). Louis Auguste Deschamps. Order of the Trustees of the British Museum. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  3. "Deschamps, Louis Auguste (1765-1842) on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  4. Willem, Meijer (1997). "Rafflesiaceae". Flora Malesiana. Vol. 13. Leiden: Hortus Botanicus Leiden, under auspices of Foundation Flora Malesiana. pp. 17–18. ISBN 90-71236-33-1.
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