Editing Jean Nicot (section)

===Introduction of tobacco===

When Nicot returned, he brought [[tobacco]] plants. He introduced [[snuff (tobacco)|snuff]] tobacco to the French royal court.<ref name="Britannica In particular, he presented the queen mother, [[Catherine de' Medici]], with tobacco leaves to cure her of her migraines.<ref name="thecompleteguide">Steve Luck, ''The Complete Guide to Cigars: An Illustrated Guide to the World's Finest Cigars'', Bath, UK: Parragon, p. 13</ref> The plant was also an instant success with the Father Superior of Malta, who shared tobacco with all of his monks. More and more of the fashionable people of Paris began to use the plant, making Nicot a celebrity.

Although [[André Thevet]] argued that he had introduced tobacco to France,<ref name="ley196512">{{Cite magazine
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}}</ref> the plant was called Nicotina. But [[nicotine]] later came to refer specifically to the particular chemical in the plant. The tobacco plant, ''[[Nicotiana]]'', also a flowering garden plant, was named after him by [[Carl Linnaeus]],<ref name="britannica"/> as was [[nicotine]].<ref>Taylor, R. B.: ''White Coat Tales – Medicine's Heroes, Heritage and Misadventures'', Springer, 2007, p. 96</ref> Nicot described its believed medicinal properties (1559) and sent it as a medicine to the French court.<ref name="britannica"/>