| Henri Jouan (1821 - 1907) was born in Tréau city (boroughs of Cherbourg), son of a General and former governor of Cherbourg, was educated at the local College, and then entered the Naval Academy in November 1836. He was on board the frigate Médée when it left in October 1838 for Mexico and participated in the Battle of Vera Cruz. Between 1839 and 1843, he traversed the Atlantic and the Mediterranean on board the Beautiful Hen. In September 1851, he was on the corvette L'Artémise bound for the South Seas, where he spent six years. During this time he published many papers on the ethnography, fauna, and flora of Polynesia. The Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honour was awarded to him in December 1857 for services rendered to his country in his long and arduous campaign. Two years later he was back in command of the transport La Bonite, assigned to the local station of New Caledonia. Jouan took an active part in the Shipping of Korea (1866) and in the attack on Ganghwa. In March 1870, he commanded the transport Sarthe, assigned to travel to Saigon and Toulon in Cochin by way of the newly-opened Suez Canal. Appointed Captain in 1873, he commanded the battleship Suffren and three years later was made head of the Division of the crews of the Fleet. He was a member of the National Society of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of Cherbourg for fifty years and was elected its president ten times. 1 |
| "Coup-D'OEil Sur L'Histoire Naturelle Du Japon"
(1868): Les Japonais sont amateurs de jardinage. Chaque maison de paysan a son jardin dont les sont vendues dans les villes. Dans ces dernières, chacun trouve moyen d'avoir, dans quelque coin de sa demeure, un jardinet avec un gazon, des rochers, un étang, une rivière, des ponts rustiques, le tout en miniature. Quelques petits arbres résineux taillés avec soin, des arbres nains dont le tronc noueux et les branches contournées simulent des arbres arrivé à l'extrême vieillesse, des bambous nains, une touffe de Dracæna, un pied de Cycas, un ou deux petits palmiers en éventail, complètent ce paysage lilliputien. Les Japonais surpassent peut-être les Chinois dans la préparation des arbres nains: rien de joli, de mignon, comme leurs petits pêchers, leurs pruniers, hauts seulement de quelques ponces, et tout couverts de fleurs. 2 |
NOTES 1 Mires de la Soci nationale des sciences naturelles e
mathtiques de Cherbourg,
http://www.archive.org/stream/miresdelasocinat37soci/miresdelasocinat37soci_djvu.txt.
A listing of Jouan's extensive publications from 1857 through 1904 can be found on pp. 17-28 of that document. 2 Jouan, Henri "Coup-D'OEil Sur L'Histoire Naturelle Du Japon" in
Mémoires de la Société nationale des sciences naturelles et mathématiques de Cherbourg,
(Paris & Cherbourg), 1868, Volume 14, Section II FLORE. -- AGRICULTURE. -- HORTICULTURE, pg.
75.
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