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Gustave Foëx

botanist (1844-1906)

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Gustave Foëx (Gustave Louis Émile Foëx, born in Marseille in 1844 - died in 1906) was a French ampelographer and a colleague of Pierre Viala.

Gustave Foex was Director of the National School of Agriculture of Montpellier (French: École nationale d’agriculture de Montpellier, now known as Supagro) from 1881 to 1897 and was a professor of viticulture there from 1870 to 1896 and he created the school vineyard in 1876 to test the American vine-stock's resistance to phylloxera). At the end of the 19th century, Montpellier was recognized to be the foremost European centre for studying vines, attracting both eminent researchers and viticulture specialists to the school.

Works

Les vins américains : 1er rapport de la dégustation : 2ème rapport sur la composition des vins américains par M. J. Leenhardt-Pomier / M. Saintpierre et Foëx / Montpellier : impr.Centrale du Midi, 1875

Programme des études pratiques de viticulture et d'ampélographie : 1° Rapport à M. le préfet de l'Hérault par M. Camille Saintpierre, par M. Foex, ... / Montpellier : C. Coulet, 1876

Rapport à M. le Directeur de l'Ecole d'Agriculture de Montpellier sur les expériences de viticulture entreprises par M. Foex,...; Ecole nationale supérieure agronomique de Montpellier, Laboratoire d'agriculture et de viticulture / Montpellier : C. Coulet, 1879

Causes de la résistance des vignes américaines aux attaques du phylloxéra : Ecole nationale d'agriculture de Montpellier, Station viticole par M. G. Foéx / Montpellier : Boehm et fils, 1879

Catalogue des vignes américaines et asiatiques et des ampélopsis cultivées dans les collections en 1879...[Ecole Nationale d'Agriculture de Montpellier] par M.G. Foëx / Montpellier : C. Coulet, 1879

Manuel pratique de viticulture pour la reconstitution des vignobles méridionaux : vignes américaines, submersion, plantation dans les sables par M. Gustave Foex / Montpellier : Camille Coulet, 1881

Manuel pratique de viticulture pour la reconstitution des vignobles méridionaux : vignes américaines, submersion, plantation dans les sables par M. Gustave Foëx / Deuxième édition, revue et considérablement augmentée / Montpellier : Camille Coulet, 1882

Instructions sur l'emploi des vignes américaines à la reconstitution des vignobles de l'Hérault par Gustave Foëx; sur ordre du Conseil Général de l'Hérault / Montpellier : Boehm et fils, 1882

Mémoire sur les causes de la chlorose chez l'herbemont / Gustave Foex...... / Montpellier : Camille Coulet, 1882

Instructions relatives à l'établissement des pépinières de vignes américaines par G. Foëx, Directeur de l'Ecole Nationale d'Agriculture de Montpellier / Paris : Imprimerie Nationale, 1883

Manuel pratique de viticulture pour la reconstitution des vignobles méridionaux par M. Gustave Foëx / 3e éd. / Montpellier : Coulet, 1884

Ampélographie américaine : Description des variétés les plus intéressantes de vignes américaines, avec une introduction à l'étude de la vigne américaine par M. Gustave Foe͏̈x,... M. Pierre Viala,... / 2ème édition / Montpellier : aux bureaux du "Progrès agricole et viticole, (1885)

Catalogue des ampélidées cultivées à l'Ecole Nationale d'Agriculture de Montpellier (1884) par G. Foex Directeur et professeur de viticulture. / Montpellier : Typographie et lithographie Bohem et fils, 1885

Le Mildiou ou Peronospora de la vigne.

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