Michel Charles Durieu de Maisonneuve

French botanist (1796-1878).

Michel Charles Durieu de Maisonneuve (7 December 1796 – 20 February 1878) was a French soldier and botanist who was a native of Saint-Eutrope-de-Born in the department of Lot-et-Garonne. He studied at École Militaire de Brienne, and later at the military school of Saint-Cyr, where he received the rank of sub-lieutenant. He entered military service in 1813, and would be associated with the French army until 1848. He participated in the Battle of Trocadero at Cádiz, and was involved in the 1843 Battle of Smala against the forces of Abd-El-Kader (1808–1883). In the mid-1820s, Durieu de Maisonne