from PBS NEWSHour tonight Wednesday November 22nd 2017:
"Peter Piper who picked a peck of pickled peppers was a real person, Pierre Poivre (Peter Pepper), an 18th century, one, armed Pirate and horticulturist who stole spices like nutmeg. At the time, "pepper" meant any spice nut.
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Pierre Poivre - Wikipedia
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Pierre Poivre (23 August 1719 – 6 January 1786) was an 18th century horticulturist and ... pepper (Poivre; About this sound pronunciation (help·info)) in French, leading some authors to identify him as the subject of the Peter Piper rhyme.
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He was a missionary to East Asia, intendant of French colonial islands in the Indian Ocean, and wearer of the cordon of St. Michel.[1]
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Career
In his early 20s Poivre was a missionary in Far Eastern locations that included Cochinchina, Guangzhou, and Portuguese Macau. In 1745 as a member of the French East India Company, while on a journey to the East Indies, he was struck by a cannonball on the wrist while being engaged in a naval battle with the British. The injury required the amputation of part of his right arm.- Botanical garden
- Spice trade
Publications
- Voyages of a Philosopher − Voyages d'un philosophe ou observations sur les moeurs et les arts des peuples de l'Afrique, de l'Asie et de l'Amérique — Fortuné-Barthélemy de Félice, 1769.[3] The book was read with interest by Thomas Jefferson, his description of mountain rice cultivated in Vietnam caught Jefferson's attention.[4]
- Tableau historique de l'Inde, contenant un abrégé de la mithologie et des mœurs indiennes — Aux dépens de la Société typographique, 1771.[5]
Taxonomy
Family
Pierre Poivre married Françoise Robin (1749 - 1841) on 5 September 1766 in Pommiers, Rhône. They had three children:- Marie Poivre (1768 - 1787)
- Françoise Julienne Ile-de-France Poivre (1770 - 1845), married Jean-Xavier Bureau de Pusy (1750 - 1806)
- Sarah Poivre (1773 - 1814)
- Honors
Pierre's surname means pepper (Poivre; pronunciation (help·info)) in French, leading some authors to identify him as the subject of the Peter Piper rhyme.[7][8]
References
- Guy Lionnet (1972). "Geography, Geology and Government". The Seychelles. The Islands Series. Stackpole Books (U.S.) / David & Charles (UK). p. 28. ISBN 0-8117-1514-0.
External links
- Media related to Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden at Wikimedia Commons
- Travelmauritius.info: Photos of the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden—Botanical Garden of Pamplemousses
- Gaiadiscovery.com: "Mauritius Heritage in Pamplemousses Gardens"
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"Provost set out in May 1769 for the Spice Islands ... Poivre had been a tireless collector of intelligence on the islands, and his sources informed him of the discovery of a small, uninhabited island northwest of Ternate called Miao, where spices grew in abundance and the Dutch were not especially vigilant as to its security."
"Jefferson now turned his attention from the commercial success of his southern countrymen to their health. In the summer of 1787 he began to wonder whether the culture of dry rice might "enable us to get rid of those ponds of stagnant water so fatal to human health and life." He had been reading the Voyages d'un Philosophe by Pierre Poivre, a man who had traveled the Far East as a missionary — first for the Catholic faith and then for French colonial agriculture. During an adventurous life, in which he was captured three times by the British, Poivre introduced the nutmeg, clove, and other Asian plants to the colonies of Isle de France and Ile Bourbon. To break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade, he too resorted to smuggling, and even to night raids. But it was Poivre's description of the mountain rice of Vietnam, a country ruled by philosopher-princes, that particularly caught Jefferson's attention."
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