Edme Rodolphe Didier Gustave Dutailly

Place: Meuvy

Born: 1846

Death: 1906

Biography:

Gustave Dutailly (2 August 1846 – 4 February 1906) was a French botanist, politician and art collector. He studied plant physiology in Paris, and in the meantime made contributions to the Dictionnaire de botanique. In 1870, he became a member of the Société linnéenne de Paris, and in 1875 a member of the Société botanique de France. In 1880, he was appointed a professor of botany to the faculty of sciences at Lyon. In Lyon, he also served as director of the Parc de la Tête d'Or. From 1882, he was a member of the Société d'anthropologie de Lyon. He was a passionate collector of poster art and amassed a collection of 5000 posters composed by artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Chéret, Pierre Bonnard, Leonetto Cappiello, Eugène Grasset, Adolphe Léon Willette and Jules-Alexandre Grün. Politically, he served three times in the National Assembly for the far-left, being elected 1881, 1885 and 1898.