> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 634](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212676) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11023-1) LSID 11023-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q737706) QID Q737706 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Vaillant, Sébastien (1669-1722), French botanist, practicing physician at Évreux 1688; army surgeon 1690, surgeon at Neuilly 1692; studied botany with Tournefort; secretary to Guy Fagon; curator of the living collections of the Jardin du Roi 1700; "sous-démonstrateur" 1708; substitute for Antoine de Jussieu in 1716 delivering the lecture on the stamens as the male organ of the flower. **Abbreviated name**: *Vaill.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Vaill.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection P|P]], [[Collection PC|PC]], [[Collection P|P]]-JU. – Other material in [[Collection BM|BM]] and [[Collection BM|BM]]-Sloane (see Dandy 1958), [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. – Left to the Cabinet du Roi; became the basis of the Herbier général of [[Collection P|P]] in 1793; most plants are from France; other collections were probably present but cannot be listed because of the dissolution of the herbarium in 1793. – *Manuscripts* at [[Collection P|P]]; *letters* to Petiver at [[Collection BM|BM]], to Sherard at Roy. Soc. London; other letters at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography AG 1: 350, 4: 38, 12(1): 214; Ainsworth p. 48, 50, 225, 250, 299, 310, 348; Backer p. 607; Barnhart 3: 419 (b. 26 Mai 1669); Blunt p. 256 \[index\]; BM 5: 2188; Bossert p. 413; Clokie p. 258; De Toni 1: cxxvi; Dryander 3: 34, 44, 141, 218, 386; DSB 13: 553-554 (P. Jovet, J. Mallet; d. 20 Mai 1722); Futak-Domin p. 108; GR p. 299, *pl*. \[*31*\]; Hawksworth p. 186; Hegi 4(1): 49, 6(1): 227, 477, 6(1): 1222; Herder p. 85, 124, 176, 425; Hortus 3: 1206; IH 1 (ed. 6): 365, (ed. 7): 344; Jackson p. 33, 289; Kelly p. 231; Lasègue p. 21, 313, 551; LS 27599-27600; Moebius p. 45, 85, 328, 404; NI 2083, see index; Plesch p. 445; PR 4972, 6099, 9654-9657, ed. 1: 2367, 6799, 7940, 10619-10622; Rehder 5: 872; Sotheby 781; Stevenson p. 1261; TL-1/see index; TL-2/3306, 4229, 4455 and see indexes; Tucker 1: 713. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Zeit. 4: 175-176. 1846 (Mérat established place of birth of V.: Vigny (Seine-et-Oise); Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 245: 705. 1964; Cat. gén. livr. impr. Bibl. natl. 198: 252-254. 1968; Grand Larousse encycl. 10: 642. 1964; Index biogr. Acad. Sci. Paris 502. 1954 (ass. bot. 1716). - Berkeley, E. & D.S., John Clayton 66, 173, 213. 1963. - Boivin, B., La flore du Canada en 1708, étude d'un manuscrit de Michel Sarrazin et Sébastien Vaillant, Provancheria no. 9. 1978, 297 p. (extr. Études lit. 10(1, 2) 1977). - Bridson, G.D.R., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 224.218. 1980. - Burdet, H.M. et al., Ouvrages botaniques anciens 582 \[index\]. 1985 (descr. of Vaillant items at G). - Church, A.H., The Sherard letters p. 4, s.d. - Dandy, J.E., Sloane herb. 226. 1958. - Duval, Ann. Soc. bot. Lyon 25: xxix-xxx. 1910 (1911) (note on a Vaillant mss. "Caractères des plantes" 1721; genera in remarkably modern families) (Just, Bot. Jahresb. 39(2): 944. 1911 (1915)). - Eriksson, G., Bot. hist. Sverige 188, 191, 195, 197, 202, 327. 1969. - E-s \[Eyriès\] *in* Michaud, Biogr. univ. 42: 410-414. 1854ff. - Fée, A., *in* Hoeffer, ed., Nouv. biogr. gén. 45: 834-835. 1856. - Guillaumin, A., Fleurs des Jardins xxvi-xxvii, *pl. 6.* 1929. - Joly, P., Bull. Soc. mycol. France 100(3): 1-10, atlas pl. 235-236. 1984 (Vaillant and coll. vélins Paris, fungi). - Jovet-Ast, S., Bull. Soc. mycol. France 10(33): clxii-ccxv. 1984 (Vaillant, mycol. at Jardin des plantes). - Lacroix, A., Fig. savants 4: 104, 111, 125, 127, 129, 136. 1938. - Latourette, M.A.L.C. de, Démonstr. élém. bot., ed. 4, 1796, atlas vol. 2, p. 1-31 (incl. biogr. Vaillant). - Lawrence, G.H.M., ed., Adanson 1: 67, 161, 165, 307, 368. 1961. - Leroy, J.F., ed., Bot. franç. Amér. nord 58, 69, 149, 154, 157. 1957; Adansonia ser. 2. 11(2): 225-250. 1971 (Botany at Jardin des plantes). - Le Turquier de Longchamp, J.A., Concord. fig. crypt. Dillen 1820 (TL-2/4455; also concord. with Vaillant's fungi). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 754. 1984. - Lütjeharms, W.J., Gesch. Mykol. 47, 68, 143, 203. 1936. - Marquis, in Dict. Sci. méd., Biogr. méd. 7: 383-387. 1825. - Morton, A.G., Hist. bot. Sci. 241-242. 1981. - Perreau, J., Bull. Soc. mycol. France 100(4): 1-5, atlas pl. 273. 1984 (Vaillant named Italian fungi in coll. vélins Paris). - Rousseau, J., Regn. veg. 71: 195-228. 1970 (major study of V.'s works; list of portr.; extensive notes on sources). - \[Smith, J.E.\], *in* Rees Cycl. 36 \[s.p.\]. 24 Oct 1817. - Stafleu, F.A., Introd. to reprint A.L. Jussieu, Gen. pl. xxviii, xlv-xlvi. 1964; Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 35, 119, 235, 275, 324, 325. 1971. - Tjaden, W.L., J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 8(1): 11-27. 1976 (history *Bot. paris.*). - Veendorp, H. & L.G.M. Baas-Becking, Hort. acad. lugd.-bot. 110-112, 123. 1938. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti berg. 3(2): 118. 1903, 3(3): 116. 1905. #### Handwriting Dandy, J.E., Sloane herb. facs. 82. 1958; see also J. Soc. Bibl. nat. hist. 4: 195. 1963. #### Note Vaillant, *Établissement de nouveaux caractères* de trois familles ou classes de plantes à fleurs composées; Sçavoir, des Cynarocephales, des Corymbifères, et des Cichoracées, Paris 1718-1721, Mém. Acad. Sci., Paris 1718: 143-191, 1719: 277-318, 1720: 277-339, 1721: 174-224 was translated into German and published (after 1753 sic) in W.B.A. von Steinwehr, Der kön. Akad. Wiss. Paris Anat. Chym. Bot. Abh. \[Breslau\] 5: 143-194, 333-388, 545-613, 697-750. 1754, 6: 131-174. 1756 (?). The standing of this republication of a great many pre-Linnaean names is in this case that of a straightforward republication, and not an effective publication under ICBN for which a contemporary author took responsibility. Vaillant's *Remarques sur la méthode de M. Tournefort*, Hist. Acad. R. Sci. 1722: 243-264. 1724 was also translated in this German series 6: 175-197. 1756(?). #### Eponymy *Valantia* Linnaeus (1753). ### Publications ##### n.15.746. Sermo de structura florum **Title** *Sermo de structura florum*, horum differentia, usuque partium eos constituetium, habitus in ipsis auspiciis demonstrationis publicae stirpium in Horto Regio Parisino, X°. Junii 1717. Et constitutio trium novorum generum plantarum, Araliastri, Sherardiae, Boerhaaviae, cum descriptione duarum plantarum novarum generi postremo inscriptarum, per Sebastianum Vaillant, demonstratorem plantarum Horti Regii Parisiensis... Lugduni Batavorum (apud Petrum van der Aa,...) 1718. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Sermo struct. fl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1718, p. \[ii-iii\], \[1\]-55, \[56, err.\]. *Copies*: B-S, BR, G, M, PH; IDC 7329. – Alternative title on p. \[ii\]: *Discours sur la structure des fleurs*, leur difference et l'usage de leurs parties; prononcé a l'ouverture du Jardin Royal de Paris, le Xe, jour du mois de juin 1717 et l'établissement de trois nouveaux genres de plantes... à Leide (Chez Pierre van der Aa...). – See Rousseau (1970) for biological significance of this treatise. *1727 issue*: 1727, p. \[ii-iii\], \[1\]-55, \[56\]. *Copy*: B-S. – See Guédès (1983). *1728 issue*: 1728, p. \[ii-iii\], p. \[1\]-55, \[56\]. *Copy*: G. *Ref*.: Guédès, M., Arch. nat. Hist. 11(2): 195-197. 1983 (on the three issues). - Ramsbottom, J., J. Soc. Bibl. nat. Hist. 4: 194-196. 1963 (list of corrections of text of his Discours; had been printed without his supervision). ##### n.15.747. Botanicon parisiense **Title** Sebastiani Vaillant,... *Botanicon parisiense*. Operis majoris prodituri *prodromus*. Lugduni Batavorum \[Leiden\] (apud Petrum vander Aa,...) 1723. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Bot. paris. prodr.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1723 (p. xii: 1 Jul 1723), p. \[i-xii\], 1-131. *Copies*: FH; IDC 6481. *Editio nova emendatior & aucta*: 1743, p. \[i-xii\]) 1-131. *Copies*: G, Stevenson, USDA. – Sebastiani Vaillant, A.R.S.S. & P. in H.R.P.D. *Botanicon parisiense*. Editio nova emendatior & aucta. Lugduni Batavorum \[Leiden\], & Venæunt Parisiis, apud Briasson,... 1743. – Burdet nr. 491. ##### n.15.748. Botanicon parisiense **Title** *Botanicon parisiense* ou dénombrement par ordre alphabétique des plantes, qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris compris dans la carte de la prevoté & de l'élection de la dite ville par le sieur Danet Gendre année mdccxxii. Avec plusieurs descriptions des plantes, leurs synonymes, le tems de fleurir & de grainer et une critique des auteurs de botanique par feu monsieur Sebastien Vaillant,... enriché de plus de trois cents figures, dessinées par le sieur Claude Aubriet, peintre du Cabinet du Roy. à Leide \[Leiden\] & à Amsterdam (chez Jean & Herman Verbeek et Balthazar Lakeman) 1727. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Bot. paris.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1727, p. \[i\*\], portr., \[iii\], map, \[v\*-xxxvi\*\], i-xii, \[xiii-xvi\], 1-205, \[49, indexes, expl. pl.\], pl. 1-33 (uncol. copp. J. Wandelaar after Aubriet). *Copies*: B, BR, FH, G, HU, MICH, NY, PH, U, USDA; IDC 8323. For an analytical collation see HU 470, with many annotations; for the importance and history of the work see Rousseau (1970, p. 209-212) and Tjaden (1976). See also Burdet no. 401. *Updated text* (Linnaean nomenclature): F.V. Mérat, *Rev.fl. paris.* 1843 (TL-2/5837); a further concordance with modern nomenclature is given by J.N.E. Germain de Saint-Pierre, Guide bot. 1852 (TL-2/1998), p. 169-172.