Soon after his return from his travels, however, M.
d'Angiviller, the successor of Buffon as Intendant of the Royal Garden, who was related to Lamarck's family, created for him the position of keeper of the herbarium of the Royal Garden, with the paltry salary of 1,000 francs.
According to the same _Etat_, Lamarck had now been attached to the Royal Garden five years.

In 1789 he received as salary only 1,000 livres or francs; in 1792 it was raised to the sum of 1,800 livres.
FOOTNOTES: [10] _Les Grand Naturalists Francais au Commencement du XIX Siecle._ [11] Was this quiet place in the region just out of Paris possibly near Mont Valerien?
He must have been about twenty-two years old when he met Rousseau and began to study botany seriously.

His _Flore Francaise_ appeared in 1778, when he was thirty-four years old.

Rousseau, at the end of his checkered life, from 1770 to 1778, lived in Paris.

He often botanized in the suburbs; and Mr.Morley, in his _Rousseau_, says that "one of his greatest delights was to watch Mont Valerien in the sunset" (p.