Genus Caperonia
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For Noël Caperon or Capperon (died 1572), French apothecary, discoverer of Fritillaria meleagris in the Orléans forest; other sources say they were found in meadows by the Loire. He sent this to Carolus Clusius (1526–1609), Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturalists. Caperon’s death was untimely. He was a Protestant, but not a French Calvinist Protestant. In 1572, French soldiers and Roman Catholic clergy attacked Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants), a campaign that lasted some weeks and resulted in the deaths of thousands of Protestants. Caperon died during the St Bartholomew Massacre.