Abstract
The scientific and lexicological works of the Swedish naturalist Charles Linneaus (1707-1778) have raised up a great interest in France after his death. The Linneaus's doctrines were at first very popular among the south France naturalists (Montpellier, Lyons, Agen,. . . ) and spread soon after among those of Paris and among the political authorities who saw in them the confirmation of the Condillac's views defended by the ideologies. The first linnean society in the world was founded in Paris in December 1787 and a linneaus's bust was unveiled in the jardin du roi in august 1790. Nevertheless, we pointed out that the position of Adanson, A-L. De Jussieu and Lamarck towards the works of Linnaeus was very more reserved. 1818 was the revival of linneism in France with the creation of linnean societies in Bordeaux (1818), Paris (1821), Lyons (1822), Caen (1823), and the emergence, through the linnean feast, of a real linneaus's cult which we established as the sign of a protest against the spread in botanical science of the Jussieu's natural method. But the struggle of the linneans was anachronical and after 1830 the linnaeus's cult dwindled and finally disappeared.
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