Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville [SEP] place of birth
Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville
Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville (Saint-Mihiel, France, 18 June 1739 – Port-au-Prince, Saint-Domingue, 1780), "avocat" at the "Parlement of Paris", was a French botanist who volunteered to be sent to Mexico in 1776 to steal the cochineal insect valued for its scarlet dye. In his clandestine bioprospecting piracy, he worked without official papers and would have been ruthlessly treated had he been caught. He succeeded in naturalizing the insect
they turned out to be, in his official report, published in 1787, after his death, by the academy at Cap-Haïtien, previously named "Cap‑Français" (initially "Cap-François").
External links.
- Complete digital facsimile of Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville's "Traite de la culture du nopal" (1787) from the John Carter Brown Library
- Fully digitized works by Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville on Internet Archive