page_title: Louis Ramond de Carbonnières
section_title: Commemoration
hierarchical_section_title: Louis Ramond de Carbonnières / Commemoration
caption_attribution_description: Ramondia pyrenaica in the Jardin alpin du jardin des Plantes de Paris
context_page_description: Louis François Élisabeth Ramond, baron de Carbonnières, was a French politician, geologist and botanist. He is regarded as one of the first explorers of the high mountains of the Pyrenees who can be described as a pyreneist.
context_section_description: One endemic Pyrenean species, Ramonda pyrenaica in the family Gesneriaceae – a remnant of the flora of the Tertiary – was dedicated to him by the botanist Jean Michel Claude Richard (1787–1868). It grows between an elevation of 1,200 m and 2,500 m in the cracks of schist rocks. There are two other species in the genus Ramonda, R. nathaliae and R. serbica, both of which are found in the Balkans; the genus is the only one in the Gesneriaceae found outside the tropics or the sub-tropics.
  The Soum de Ramond (3,263 m) (known in Spanish as Pico Añisclo) in the Monte Perdido massif is named after him. (See photograph above left.)
  His name is also given to Pic Ramougn (3,011 m), a steep, rocky peak in the Néouvielle massif. Ramougn is the pronunciation of Ramond in the Gascon language.
  Bory de Saint Vincent gave Ramond's name to a chain of craters (Puy Ramond) on the Piton de la Fournaise in Réunion: they are regularly visited by walkers on the GR route which crosses Réunion from north to south, and by the thousands of runners who take part in the Diagonale des Fous each year.
  The Société Ramond (Ramond Society) was formed in 1865 in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, by Henry Russell (1834–1909), Émilien Frossard (1829–1898), Charles Packe (1826–1896) and Farnham Maxwell-Lyte. It wanted to distinguish itself from traditional academic societies, while still being devoted primarily to the scientific and ethnographic study of the Pyrenees and to the dissemination of knowledge. Ramond, who had excelled in these disciplines, was the best symbol for the new society. The Ramond Society still publishes an annual bulletin.
  Ramond's herbarium can be seen at the Muséum de l'histoire naturelle in Bagnères-de-Bigorre.
caption: Ramonda pyrenaica
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