Jean-François Cagnet
Jean-François Cagnet, born in Baumont in 1756 (fl. 1790–1801), was a French gardener who worked under the botanist André Michaux in the course of the Nicolas Baudin voyage of scientific discovery  (1800–1804). The expedition sailed in two corvettes: the Géographe and the Naturaliste, in order to chart the coast of New Holland (now Australia), to make scientific observations and to collect biological specimens. This was possibly the largest such voyage of its kind in the early 19th century, having a team of 22 experts (scientists, artists and engineers), accompanied by some 120 sailors. He was a junior gardener in a team of 5 gardeners that served on the voyage, the others being Antoine Sautier, Merlot (listed as 'an African') and Antoine Guichenot, all under the supervision of Head Gardener Anselme Riedlé. Cagnet left the expedition with Michaux at the second landfall, Isle de France (now Mauritius), as a result of dissatisfaction with Baudin's authoritarian manner and other concerns. See also
List of gardener-botanist explorers of the Enlightenment
European and American voyages of scientific exploration

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French explorers
French gardeners
French horticulturists
Explorers of Australia
1756 births
Year of death unknown
19th-century explorers
19th-century French botanists