Established in 1857 by the French botanist Gustave Thuret with a particular interest in algae, Villa Touret Botanical Garden at Cape Antibes served as the first privately funded research laboratory in France, where acclimatization experiments were carried out with many plants Exotics in cooperation with the Paris Museum, and in addition to the scientific results obtained, the garden helped to introduce a group of exotic plant species to the landscape of the Cote d'Azur Islands.