安托万-奥古斯丁-帕门蒂尔的坟墓
佩尔-拉夏斯公墓
法国，巴黎
历史上最伟大的马铃薯推广者的坟墓被块茎所包围。
如果你在巴黎著名的佩尔-拉夏兹公墓中漫步，在著名的哲学家、歌手和剧作家的坟墓中，你可能会发现一座被马铃薯植物包围的坟墓。如果最近有仰慕者经过，墓碑上甚至可能有一个块茎。你已经找到了历史上最伟大的马铃薯推广者Antoine-Augustin Parmentier的最后安息之地。
当Parmentier于1737年出生时，法国人对马铃薯嗤之以鼻。农民们将其作为动物饲料来种植，但它们被视为不适合人类食用，有可能导致麻风病。但在他去世时，整个欧洲都在种植马铃薯，这种坚韧、可靠的作物被认为是打破了饥荒的循环。
没有人能够比Parmentier的功劳更大，他是一名军队药剂师，在被普鲁士人俘虏并不断以马铃薯为食后，将说服他的同胞相信马铃薯的优点作为一项个人使命。毕竟，他以良好的状态出现了。
作为一名科学工作者，帕门蒂尔采取了一种学术性的方法，其中包括撰写论文《关于在危急时刻可以替代普通食品的营养蔬菜的调查》。他还是一个表演者：他的宣传工作包括举办晚宴，提供一道又一道以马铃薯为中心的菜肴（除其他名人外，托马斯-杰斐逊也参加了晚宴）；在巴黎附近种植一小块马铃薯田（并派人看守，使其看起来值得偷窃）；据称还让国王路易十六和玛丽-安托瓦内特佩戴马铃薯花。
虽然成就广泛，但帕门蒂尔因其在马铃薯方面的工作而最为著名。他获得了拿破仑颁发的荣誉军团勋章，从留在他坟墓上的马铃薯来看，人们对他仍然怀有深厚的感情。
出发前须知
坟墓位于佩尔-拉夏兹公墓的第39区。
Grave of Antoine-Augustin Parmentier
Pere-Lachaise Cemetery
Paris, France
The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.
IF YOU AMBLE THROUGH PARIS’s popular Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, among tombs of celebrated philosophers, singers, and playwrights, you may discover a grave surrounded by potato plants. If an admirer has stopped by recently, there may even be a tuber resting atop the tombstone. You have found the final resting place of Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, history’s greatest potato promoter.
When Parmentier was born, in 1737, the French disdained potatoes: Farmers grew them as animal feed, but they were seen as unfit for human consumption, with the potential to cause leprosy. At the time of his death, though, potatoes were grown throughout Europe, and the hardy, dependable crop was credited for breaking a cycle of famine.
No one could take more credit than Parmentier, an army pharmacist who, after being taken prisoner and fed a constant diet of potatoes by the Prussians, made it a personal mission to convince his countrymen of potatoes’ merits. After all, he emerged in good shape.
As a man of science, Parmentier took a scholarly approach, which included writing the treatise “Inquiry into Nourishing Vegetables That in Times of Necessity Could Substitute for Ordinary Food.” He was also a showman: His promotional efforts included dinner parties featuring course after course of potato-centric dishes (among other celebrities, Thomas Jefferson attended); planting a small potato field near Paris (and posting guards to make them seem worth stealing); and allegedly getting King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette to wear potato flowers.
Although widely accomplished, Parmentier is best known for his work with potatoes. He received the Legion of Honor from Napoleon, and judging from the potatoes left on his grave, remains fondly remembered.
Know Before You Go
The grave can be found in Division 39 of Pere-Lachaise Cemetery.
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