Turbat & Compagnie, Eugène

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Orléans, Centre
France

Eugène Maxime Turbat (November 18, 1865 Ardon, Loiret - March 22, 1944 Orléans) was Mayor of Orléans (1929-1935) and Senator of the Department Loiret (1933-1941). The nursery E. Turbat & Cie was established in 1900 at Orléans.

[From Lyon horticole, March-April 1944, p. 86:] M. Eugène TURBAT, Horticulteur - Pépiniériste, sénateur du Loiret, ancien maire d’Orléans, Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur et de l’Ordre de Léopold, Président de la Confédération nationale des Groupements Horticoles Professionnels de France, décédé le 22 mars 1944 dans sa 79^e année..

[From The Book on Roses, by Dr. G. Griffin Lewis, p. 137:] E. Turbat of Orleans, France, was born at Ardon, France, on November 18, 1865. He began propagating roses at fifteen years of age and specialized in Dwarf Polyanthas.