French botanist (1746-1817).
Nicolas Marie Thérèse Jolyclerc (1746, Lyon – 6 February 1817, Paris) was a French Benedictine and botanist. He belonged to the Congregation of Saint Maur in Lyon. At the time of the Revolution, he left the church and became an instructor of botany, first in Tulle (Corrèze) and later at the École centrale de l'Oise in Beauvais. As an instructor in Beauvais, he gave a course in botany attended by young girls. Reportedly, after explaining the role of reproductive organs in plants, his female students were distressed to the extent that the affronted mothers withdrew their daughters from the cours