The French politician and wine-growing expert Victor Vermorel (1848-1927) was president of the "Comice Agricole et viticole du Beaujolais", a senator of the Rhône for many years and director of the "Station viticole de Villefranche" winery. His company manufactured agricultural machinery and carried out research in the automotive and aeronautical industries. He was also successfully involved in researching and combating various vine pests and vine diseases such as mildew. His company developed a portable device with a hand pump with which Bordeaux fluid could be sprayed thinly.

Between 1901 and 1910, the work "Ampélographie - Traité général de viticulture" was published in seven volumes in collaboration with the scientist Professor Pierre Viala (1859-1936) after ten years of studies and meticulous research with a team of seventy people. It was the standard ampelographic work at the time and contained 24,000 grape varieties with their synonyms, 570 lithographic plates, most of them in colour, and numerous illustrations (four of these plates or grape variety pictures are shown below).
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