Montpellier Thanks America

Down near the train station in Montpellier is a small park. In it is this monument.



The place is marked on the map as Square Planchon, and this inscription (sorry, it's only partial) is another clue about what it's for.



As it turns out, Jules Émile Planchon was a French botanist who was the head of the botany department at Montpellier University when the phylloxera plague started killing off all th...
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