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Bastille Day
14 July 2026
Today we pause in our 250th celebration to honor the country that gave us our shining beacon of liberty.
We celebrate with Spaendonck, Redouté and Bessa, who painted the vélins; Chazal's Flore Pittoresque; L'Anglois' Livre; Malesherbes' manuscript translation in Huntia and a letter; la Pérouse's letter; and in our General Autograph Collection letters from Bory de Saint-Vincent, Bougainville, Buffon, Cuvier, Delacroix de Contaut, Duhamel du Monceau, Quéne Duhamel, Durand, A. L. Jussieu, B. Jussieu, Lacépède, Lamarck, F.-A. Michaux, Louis Claude Marie Richard, Séguier and Tournefort.
Happy Bastille Day!
About the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, a research division of Carnegie Mellon University, specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation. To this end, the Institute acquires and maintains authoritative collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files, and provides publications and other modes of information service. The Institute meets the reference needs of botanists, biologists, historians, conservationists, librarians, bibliographers and the public at large, especially those concerned with any aspect of the North American flora.
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