Louis-Antoine Planche
1776–1840 (age 64)
Biography
Louis-Antoine Planche was a French pharmacist whose professional expertise contributed to the advancement of pharmaceutical science and practice during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His work reflected the growing professionalization of the apothecary and pharmaceutical trades.
Planche's dedication to his profession and his standing in Parisian society are commemorated by his burial in Père Lachaise Cemetery. He represents the skilled practitioners whose contributions to medicine and health were vital to their communities.