Paul Évariste Parmentier

Paul Évariste Parmentier (1860 to 1941) was a French agronomist and botanist, born in Semmadon and dying in Besançon. He taught in Arbois and Baume-les-Dames, received his degree in natural sciences at Besançon in 1889 and his doctorate from the University of Lyon in 1892, and from 1892 was a professor of agricultural botany at the faculty of sciences of Besançon, teaching there until 1930 and directing its botanical garden. From 1902 to 1919 he directed the agricultural station of Franche-Comté, and from 1903 until his death he was president of the Société d'Horticulture du Doubs. His writings include the Traité élémentaire et pratique de botanique agricole of 1902 and a 1912 study of the walnuts and hickories of France.