Education
In Paris, he studied botany under Adrien de Jussieu and worked on exsiccatae with Timothée Puel.
In Paris, he studied botany under Adrien de Jussieu and worked on exsiccatae with Timothée Puel.
During his career he assembled an important herbarium of approximately 1000 packages that contained about 60,000 species. After his death, botanist Jean-Louis Kralik published a catalog of Maille"s collections as "Catalogue Des Reliquiae Mailleanae" (1869). In 1842 the grass genus Maillea (synonym Phleum, family Poaceae) was named in his honor by Filippo Parlatore.
In 1854 he was a founding member of the Société botanique de France.