Pierre Poivre (23 August 1719 – 6 January 1786) was an 18th-century horticulturist and botanist. He was born in Lyon, France. He was a missionary to East...
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Jacques-François Le Poivre (1652–1710), Belgian mathematician Pierre Poivre, French horticulturalist Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, French journalist and writer This disambiguation...
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Steak au poivre (French pronunciation: [stɛk o pwavʁ], Quebec French pronunciation: [stei̯k o pwɑːvʁ]), or pepper steak, is a French dish that consists...
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civilisations orientales and Law. Poivre claims to be descended directly from Jacques Poivre, brother of Pierre Poivre, an 18th-century nobleman in the...
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Robin de Livet, a French aristocrat who lived in Lyon, and the widow of Pierre Poivre, the noted French administrator. After du Pont's house was sacked by...
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Lycée des Mascareignes - Senior high/Sixth form École du Centre/Collège Pierre-Poivre - Primary and junior high school Railway stations in Mauritius "Nous...
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Pierre Poivre (1719–1786), administrator of the Isle de France and Ile Bourbon (Réunion), who he assisted in the cultivation of spices. When Poivre was...
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water lilies (Victoria amazonica), the garden, first constructed by Pierre Poivre (1719 – 1786) in 1770, covers an area of around 37 hectares (91 acres)...
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generation earlier. Some authors have identified the subject of the rhyme as Pierre Poivre, an eighteenth‑century French horticulturalist and government administrator...
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was the nephew of the botanist Pierre Poivre (mother of Pierre Sonnerat, Benoîte Poivre, was a cousine of Pierre Poivre) who was a French colonial administrator...
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that seedlings from this very tree were stolen by a Frenchman named Pierre Poivre in 1770, transferred to the Isle de France (Mauritius), and then later...
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Lycée des Mascareignes - Senior high/Sixth form École du Centre/Collège Pierre-Poivre - Primary and junior high school Wikimedia Commons has media related...
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friend and fellow botanist Pierre Poivre was serving as governor on the island, and Commerson and Baret remained behind as Poivre's guests. Bougainville probably...
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(1704). Le Poivre was born in Mons to son of Jacques and Catherine Demeurs. The Le Poivre family had many engineers including Pierre Le Poivre (1546-1626)...
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268 km south of Victoria, Seychelles. Poivre was named in 1771 by Chevalier de la Biollière after Pierre Poivre, the famous "Peter Pepper" and governor...
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physicist Siméon Poisson (1781–1840), mathematician and physicist Pierre Poivre (1719–1786), horticulturist and botanist Albéric Pont (1870–1960), dentist...
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first prime minister of Mauritius. The garden was first constructed by Pierre Poivre (1719–1786) in 1770. The area is 25 hectares. The garden features spices...
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Zoology. p. 235. Stresemann, E. (1952). "On the birds collected by Pierre Poivre in Canton, Manila, India and Madagascar (1751–1756)". Ibis. 94 (3):...
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23 October. At Isle de France, Ahutoru was hosted by Poivre, and met Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, who wrote an account describing Ahutoru as intelligent...
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came under direct royal authority. The new intendant of Mauritius, Pierre Poivre (1719–1786), was determined to break the Dutch monopoly of the lucrative...
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38, Number 620. Stresemann, Erwin (1952). "On the birds collected by Pierre Poivre in Canton, Manila, India and Madagascar (1751–1756)". Ibis. 94 (3):...
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Press. p. 187. Stresemann, Erwin (1952). "On the birds collected by Pierre Poivre in Canton, Manila, India and Madagascar (1751–1756)". Ibis. 94 (3):...
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dynasty whom power originated from the Huế City. Notable visitors include Pierre Poivre (1741). France had invested in Dai Viet by supporting Nguyen Anh's faction...
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Saint-Denis. Planted with trees and spices taken from outside the island by Pierre Poivre, the garden is home to a natural history museum opened in August 1855...
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he made the island home in 1768. In October 1770 Marion convinced Pierre Poivre, the civil administrator in Port Louis, to equip him with two ships...
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East India Company opened a factory in Phố Hiến. The famous Frenchman Pierre Poivre visited Vietnam from 1720. The Nguyễn lords, perceived with higher degree...
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and grandson of Pierre-François Choullat. He was the son-in-law of Pierre Poivre. His mother-in-law, Françoise Robin, married Pierre Samuel du Pont de...
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introduced in Mauritius in 1760 by a French priest, Father Galloys. In 1770, Pierre Poivre planted tea plants on large scale. However, it was only in the 19th...
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of the country prior to the French Revolution. Pigneau was helped by Pierre Poivre, who had previously been involved in seeking French commercial interests...
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Nguyễn lords replaced old Cham temples with pagodas. According to Pierre Poivre, around 1750 Nguyễn lords had built 400 pagodas and shrines in Huế alone...
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