Diereville

Dièreville, also written Diereville or styled Sieur de Dièreville, was a French surgeon, botanist and travel writer, born in France and probably in Pont-l'Évêque in Calvados. He is known mostly for his journey to Acadia, which lasted from October 1699 to October 1700. His observations of the colony were published as Relation du voyage du Port Royal de l'Acadie, ou de la Nouvelle France, first printed in Rouen in 1708. The book was republished with notes in Quebec in 1885, and in 1933 the Champlain Society issued a further edition in its General Series, edited by John Clarence Webster with an English translation by Alice Webster. The botanist Tournefort named the plant genus Diervilla in his honour. The article consulted gives no birth or death dates, so this entry leaves them unrecorded.