M. Antoine Jacobsohn, Director, Le Potager du Roi, Versailles.

Horticulture Section seminar series. Also available via Polycom to A134 Barton Hall in Geneva.

Antoine Jacobsohn received a BS from Cornell University / ALS in 1986. He moved to France where he worked on a small farm and continued his studies, particularly on the comparative history of production and consumption of food, at the University of Paris 8 and at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris). Between 1993 and 2000, he actively collected tools, historical documents and ethnographic interviews concerning the market gardeners of the Parisian region. He also participated in the French national inventory of culinary heritage, concentrating on fruits and vegetables. He then became responsible for the library and resource centre of the French national horticulture society. He began work at the King’s kitchen garden of Versailles in 2004 and became director in 2007. The garden is a department of the French national school for landscape architecture.