Louis Claude Marie (Louis) (Claude) Richard (1754–1821)

French botanist. Studied mineralogy, zoology, comparative anatomy, and botany at the Collège Mazarin in Paris. Sent by the French government to French Guiana, where he was director of the botanic garden and took part in expeditions in that country, parts of Brazil, and the Antilles, 1781–9. Professor of botany at the École de médicine, Paris, 1795.