Fougeroux de Bondaroy was a plant physiologist and archaeologist who traveled extensively in France and Italy. He studied plant physiology under his uncle, Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau, and worked with him on the projected revision of his most famous book, Traite des arbes et arbustes. Fougeroux de Bondaroy published Recherches sur les ruins d'Herculaneum (1769), Art du tunnelier, and Memoires sur la formation des os (1763).