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Sylvestre is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Sylvestre François Lacroix (1765–1843), French mathematician
- Sylvestre Nsanzimana (born 1936), Prime Minister of Rwanda from 12 October 1991 to 2 April 1992
- Sylvestre Ntibantunganya (born 1956), Burundi politician
- Saint Sylvestre
Usage examples of "sylvestre".
She turned a page and found the place "'Dictamnus, which some call Pulegium Sylvestre (but some Embactron, some Beluocas, some Artemidion, some Creticus, some Ephemeron, some Eldian, some Belotocos, some Dorcidium, some Elbunium, ye Romans Ustilago rustica) is a Cretian herb, sharp, smooth, like to Pulegium.
Fréron, on horseback, surrounded by cannon and troops, arrives with about a hundred Maratists, the former accomplices of Lemaille, Sylvestre, and other well-known assassins, who form a body of local auxiliaries and counselors.
Salmon, in 1710, in The English Herbal, gives a number of varieties of the Garden Clary, which he calls Horminum Hortense, in distinction to Horminum Sylvestre, the Wild Clary, subdividing it into the Common Clary (H.