> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 811](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120942) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/2620-1) LSID 2620-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1333551) QID Q1333551 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Fagon, Gui-Crescent (1638-1718), first body-physician of Louis XIV (1693), professor of botany at the Paris *Jardin du Roi* (1671-1708), director id. (1699-1718), honorary member of the Académie des Sciences 1699. Was instrumental in sending collectors abroad (e.g. Tournefort, Antoine de Jussieu) and attracted Tournefort, Vaillant and Antoine de Jussieu to the *Jardin du Roi*. **Abbreviated name**: *Fagon* \[standard form in IPNI: *Fagon*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection P|P]], incorporated in general herbarium. Fagon's herbarium contained mainly plants from France; it was acquired upon his death by Vaillant. With the Vaillant herbarium the Fagon plants became the basis of the Paris general herbarium on the reorganization of the collections of the old Cabinet du Roy in 1793. Other Fagon material is at [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. *Ref*.: Lecomte, Rev. Scient, ser. 5. 7: 677 (1907). - Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 163. 1965. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(2): 958; Barnhart 1: 524; Bossert p. 121; Jackson p. 421; PR p. 104, ed. 1: 3091-3092. - Jussieu, Éloge de Mr. Fagon, Paris 1718. - Deleuze, Hist. Mus. Hist. nat. 1: 13-22. 1823. - Chevalier, Arch. Mus. nat. Hist. nat. ser. 6. 12: 649-663. 1935 (portr.) - Stafleu, Introduction to Jussieu's Genera plantarum vi. 1964. - Rousseau, Regn. veg. 71: 417 \[index\]. 1970. #### Eponymy *Fagonia* Linnaeus (1753); *Guidonia* P. Browne (1756).