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Jean Grenier
Jean Grenier (6 February 1898 – 5 March 1971, Dreux-Venouillet, Eure-et-Loir) was a French philosopher and writer. He taught for a time in Algiers, where he became a significant influence on the young Albert Camus.
Biography.
Born in Paris, Grenier spent his childhood and adolescence in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany, the birthplace of Jules Lequier, the visionary philosopher to whom Grenier would eventually dedicate his doctoral thesis. These early years, during which he became acquainted
(now the "Jardin Dominique Alexandre Godron", renamed in his honor).
Among his numerous writings were a publication on the flora of the Lorraine region of France called ""Flore de Lorraine"" (1843), and the three-volume ""Flore de France"", a work on flora native to France and Corsica that was co-written with botanist Jean Charles Marie Grenier (1808-1875). In addition to his botanical works, he published a number of studies in the field