11 _et_ 12, pp.

97-101.

The Intendant of the Garden was completely ignored, and his unpopularity and inefficiency led to his resignation.

But meanwhile, in his letter to Condorcet, the perpetual Secretary of the Institute of France, remonstrating against the proposed suppression by the Assembly of the place of Intendant, he partially retracted his action against Lamarck, saying that Lamarck's work, "_peut etre utile, mais n'est pas absolutement necessaire_." The Intendant, as Hamy adds, knew well the value of the services rendered by Lamarck at the Royal Garden, and that, as a partial recompense, he had been appointed botanist to the museum.
He also equally well knew that the author of the _Flore Francaise_ was in a most precarious situation and supported on his paltry salary a family of seven persons, as he was already at this time married and had five children.

"But his own place was in peril, and he did not hesitate to sacrifice the poor savant whom he had himself installed as keeper of the herbarium." (Hamy, _l.