Turpin studied drawing at the École des Beaux-Arts in Vire, then, in 1780, enlisted as a soldier in the Calvados battalion. He collaborated on a number of the most important botanical publications of the early nineteenth century, including Humboldt’sPlantae aequinoctiales. . in ordem digessit Amatus Bonpland, Benjamin Delessert’sIcones selectae plantarum pr.
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