Louis Claude Noisette

Louis Claude Noisette ( born November 2, 1772 in Chatillon, near Paris, † January 9, 1849 ) was a French rose breeder, who founded the category of Noisette roses, the variety ' Blush Noisette ' belongs.

Louis Claude Noisette grew up as the son of the then renowned garden architect. In the service of the Count of Provence, the future Louis XVIII the supervision over the domain of Brunoy led. Early on, his father taught him and his brothers in the art of gardening.

After serving in the military 1793-1795, he headed off to Paris in 1795, the Botanical School of desecrated during the Revolution and the military hospital Val -de- Grâce been converted convent in the Rue du Faubourg Saint -Jacques. There he completed his acquaintance with his protector and eventual friend, the chief surgeon barber. This wished to give the patient movement and speed their recovery, to create a green space and allowed for this purpose include the Botanical School, so that Louis -Claude Noisettes tasks, only adds to the greenhouses, an adjacent property and the maintenance of the garden a Kolleges (now Collège Henri IV ) limited. Towards the end of the 18th century, the Val -de- Grâce raised the point of the gardener at all, to lease the grounds and greenhouses. Noisette signed the contract, made successfully independently and could buy the land in the Faubourg Saint -Jacques in 1806.

There, he raised nearly all remarkable plant, of which he could find in the Time of Seesperre. Thither came also the Esterházy to select the trees for the planting of its vast possessions.