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### Author
Lortet, Mme. Clémence, née Richard (1772-1835), French botanist at Lyon; pupil and botanical companion of Gilibert, one of the founders of the Société linnéenne de Lyon.
**Abbreviated name**: *C. Lortet* \[standard form in IPNI: *Lortet*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection LY|LY]], in the herbarium of the Société linnéenne.
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 12(2): 539; Barnhart 2: 403; Bossert p. 243.
- Anon., Ann. Soc. bot. Lyon 19: 14. 1893/4; Bull. Soc. bot. France 23: clxxxv. 1876 (herb.).
- Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 429. 1880 (herb.).
- Magnin, A., Bull. Soc. bot. Lyon 32: 2-4, 125. 1907, 35: 33. 1910; Les Lortet, Lyon 1913, 109 p. (portr. bibl.)
- Pritzel, G. A., Linnaea 19: 457. 1946 (b. 17 Sep 1772, d. 15 Apr 1835).
- Roffavier, Ann. Soc. bot. Lyon 1856: 1-11. (portr., biogr.).
- Verdoorn, F., Chron. bot. 1: 12. 1935 (d. 16 Apr 1835).
- Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 115. 1903.
#### Note on the lortet family
Clémence Richard (1772-1835; no known connection with the botanical Richard family) married Jean Pierre Lortet (x-1823) in 1791. Her son Pierre Lortet (1792-1868) physician and naturalist, also active as amateur botanist, married (1826) Nettchen Müller (1802-1837). Louis-Charles Lortet (1836-1909), physician and botanist was the third child born out of this marriage; see below for treatment. Clémence Lortet contributed to publications by Balbis and Gilibert; published-through Gilibert – a *Calendrier de Flore* (1809), and left a mss. *Promenades botaniques* (1804-1805).