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Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle

Malesherbes himself was a keen botanist, but in the same year (1775) he was forced out of office because he published a scheme to reform the tax system.

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This was a court which dealt with tax offences, but under its president Malesherbes it became perhaps the only French government institution to protect ordinary citizens against a corrupt state.

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Certainly his former patron, Malesherbes, went to the guillotine.

Dombeya

:Dombeya of L'Héritier de Brutelle is a synonym of Tourrettia (Bignoniaceae).

Richard Relhan

His name was commemorated by L'Heritier in a genus, Relhania, comprising a few species of South African Composite.

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