Treaty of the culture of the nopal, and the education of the cochineal in the French colonies of America

In this book, the French botanist and adventurer Thierry Menonville (1739-1780) recounts how he succeeded to smuggle cochineal insects out of Spanish-ruled Mexico and attempted to breed them in the French colony of Santo Domingo. Menonville's untimely death thwarted his efforts to provide France with its own supply of cochineal dye