caption death_date death_place birth_place image_size nationality birth_date image article_title name occupation
dominique villars 26 june 1814 strasbourg villar february 2012 200px france 14 november 1745 villars_antoine_1745-1814 . jpg dominique villars
 dominique villars botanist
dominique villars

dominique villars or villar -lrb- born 14 november 1745 in le villard , part of the commune of le noyer , hautes-alpes , and died on 26 june 1814 in strasbourg -rrb- was an 18th-century french botanist .
his main work is `` histoire des plantes du dauphiné '' published between 1786 to 1789 , in which about 2,700 species -lrb- particularly alpine plants -rrb- are described , after over twenty years of observation .
his herbarium and botanical manuscripts are preserved at the muséum d'histoire naturelle de grenoble .
