Edmond Albius Vanilla
It should stick to a random capricious: one hundred flowers turned into fruit. Too bad because this orchid America is well liked in Réunion and the pods were valuable.
And then one day, a slave girl of 12 years, Edmond Albius devised to raise the partition that separated stamens and stigma and to bring successful fertilization!
The method was improved in the years following, but the impulse was given: vanilla would enrich the whole coast in the wind ... Within a generation.
Edmond Albius the brilliant botanist slave drew that may profit from his découver mourru and destitute after the abolition of slavery.
Daniel Vaxelaire