During the French Revolution, André Michaux lost the sponsorship of King Louis XVI, for whom he was collecting plants in North America as the king’s botanist. His plans for botanical expeditions to the west of the Mississippi River with American funding were disrupted when he became involved in a political scheme to secure Louisiana and New Orleans for France.
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