Gabriel de Clieu and the coffee plant seedling. De Clieu arranged to transport a coffee plant from the greenhouses of the Jardin royal des plantes to Martinique in 1720, water was rationed on the voyage and he shared his ration with the seedling. Gabriel-Mathieu Francois D'ceus de Clieu,c. 1687 1774. French naval officer and the governor of Guadeloupe from 1737 to 1752 and the founder of Pointe-à-Pitre. From Le Savant du Foyer ou Notions Scientifiques Sur Les Objets Usuels de la Vie, published 1864
Gabriel de Clieu and the coffee plant seedling. De Clieu arranged to transport a coffee plant from the greenhouses of the Jardin royal des plantes to Martinique in 1720, water was rationed on the voyage and he shared his ration with the seedling. Gabriel-Mathieu Francois D'ceus de Clieu,c. 1687 1774. French naval officer and the governor of Guadeloupe from 1737 to 1752 and the founder of Pointe-à-Pitre. From Le Savant du Foyer ou Notions Scientifiques Sur Les Objets Usuels de la Vie, published 1864
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