Count Bertrand de Molleville

Count Bertrand de Molleville

Developer of the Pruner Today is the birthday of Count Bertrand de Molleville, who was born on this day – 275 years ago -in 1744. During the French Revolution, Molleville escaped to England, where he developed the secateurs or the pruner. He created them to help with pruning grapevines – something he was all too…

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