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What is the French Jussieu family known for?

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Jussieu , name of a French family of distinguished botanists. Antoine de Jussieu, 1686-1758, was director of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. He edited Jacques Barrelier's posthumously published Plantae per Galliam, Hispaniam et Italiam observatae (1714) and the third edition (1719) of J. P. de Tournefort's Institutiones rei herbariae.

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