French botanist (1844-1871).
Jules Pierre Fourreau (25 August 1844, Lyon – 16 January 1871, Beaune) was a French botanist. The standard author abbreviation Fourr. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. As a young man he worked as an assistant to botanist Alexis Jordan (1814-1897) in Lyon. Beginning in the mid-1860s, he began collecting plants throughout southeastern France (Ardèche, the Alps, Provence, et al.). In November 1870 he enlisted in the Légionnaires du Rhône, and on 16 January 1871 he died in a hospital in Beaune as a result of injuries received at the Bataille de Nuits (18 D