Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
I've added some information and corrected some things. Gueneau did work on birds, but he also dealt with other kinds of natural history, especially insects, and I don't think it's right to call him an ornithologist. |
I added information on inoculating his son. |
||
| Line 21: | Line 21: | ||
The son of the aristocratic lawyer and member of [[parlement]] François Marie Guéneau (1686-1742) and his wife Marie Colombe Meney (1685-1768), Philippe first studied in Paris from 1732 to 1734 at the [[Collège de Navarre]] and the [[Lycée Saint-Louis|Collège d'Harcourt]] and then in 1735 at the Collège of the Oratory in [[Troyes]]. He studied law in [[Dijon]] at the Faculty of Law.<ref>[http://gw3.geneanet.org/patsy?lang=fr&p=philibert&n=gueneau+de+montbeillard Genealogy of the Family].</ref> He had an older brother, François Guéneau (1717-1788), and a younger sister, Charlotte Guéneau (born about 1722).<ref>[http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp00680812 Thesaurus], [[Consortium of European Research Libraries]] (CERL)</ref> |
The son of the aristocratic lawyer and member of [[parlement]] François Marie Guéneau (1686-1742) and his wife Marie Colombe Meney (1685-1768), Philippe first studied in Paris from 1732 to 1734 at the [[Collège de Navarre]] and the [[Lycée Saint-Louis|Collège d'Harcourt]] and then in 1735 at the Collège of the Oratory in [[Troyes]]. He studied law in [[Dijon]] at the Faculty of Law.<ref>[http://gw3.geneanet.org/patsy?lang=fr&p=philibert&n=gueneau+de+montbeillard Genealogy of the Family].</ref> He had an older brother, François Guéneau (1717-1788), and a younger sister, Charlotte Guéneau (born about 1722).<ref>[http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp00680812 Thesaurus], [[Consortium of European Research Libraries]] (CERL)</ref> |
||
In 1742 he became a lawyer. He later lived for around a decade in Paris, where he befriended Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the ''[[ |
In 1742 he became a lawyer. He later lived for around a decade in Paris, where he befriended Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the ''[[Encyclopédie]]''. Gueneau contributed a single article to that work, "Étendue", a philosophical treatment of the notion of extension.<ref>Frank A. Kafker and Serena L. Kafker, ''The Encyclopedists as Individuals: A Biographical Dictionary of the Authors of the Encyclopédie'' (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1988), 167.</ref> |
||
In 1755 |
In 1755 Guéneau returned to Semur-en-Auxois. There he married Elisabeth de Potot Montbeillard on 23 November 1756 with whom he had a son, François Guéneau de Montbeillard (1759-1847), who took on a military career as a "capitaine de la cavalerie."<ref>[http://gw1.geneanet.org/garric?lang=fr&p=elisabeth+benigne&n=potot+de+montbeillard Genealogy his wife]</ref> In 1766 Gueneau became famous for having his son inoculated against smallpox, a controversial procedure at the time.<ref>Kafker and Kafker, ''Encyclopedists as Individuals'', 168.</ref> |
||
At the request of the naturalist [[Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon]], Guéneau became a contributor to the ''Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roy''.<ref>[http://www.buffon.cnrs.fr/ice/ice_page_detail.php?lang=fr&type=text&bdd=buffon&table=buffon_hn&bookId=68&typeofbookDes=coll&pageChapter=Philibert+Gueneau+de+Montbeillard+(1720-1785)&pageOrder=1&facsimile=off&search=no Biographie universelle et ancienne et moderne : histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits, leurs actions, leurs vertus ou leurs crimes. Philibert Gueneau de Montbeillard (1720−1785)]</ref> |
|||
In 1764 he was elected a member of the [[Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon]] |
In 1764 he was elected a member of the [[Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon]] |
||
He wrote the article ''Étendue'' for the ''[[Encyclopédie]]'' by [[Denis Diderot|Diderot]] and [[d'Alembert]]. |
|||
== Works (selection) == |
== Works (selection) == |
||
Revision as of 02:46, 21 March 2017
Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 April 1720 |
| Died | 28 November 1785 (aged 65) Paris |
| Occupation(s) | Lawyer Ornithologist |
| Spouse | Elisabeth Potot de Montbeillard |
Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard also Philibert Guéneau de Montbeillard (2 April 1720 – 28 November 1785[1]) was an eighteenth-century French lawyer, writer, naturalist, and contributor to the Encyclopédie.
Biography
The son of the aristocratic lawyer and member of parlement François Marie Guéneau (1686-1742) and his wife Marie Colombe Meney (1685-1768), Philippe first studied in Paris from 1732 to 1734 at the Collège de Navarre and the Collège d'Harcourt and then in 1735 at the Collège of the Oratory in Troyes. He studied law in Dijon at the Faculty of Law.[2] He had an older brother, François Guéneau (1717-1788), and a younger sister, Charlotte Guéneau (born about 1722).[3]
In 1742 he became a lawyer. He later lived for around a decade in Paris, where he befriended Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie. Gueneau contributed a single article to that work, "Étendue", a philosophical treatment of the notion of extension.[4]
In 1755 Guéneau returned to Semur-en-Auxois. There he married Elisabeth de Potot Montbeillard on 23 November 1756 with whom he had a son, François Guéneau de Montbeillard (1759-1847), who took on a military career as a "capitaine de la cavalerie."[5] In 1766 Gueneau became famous for having his son inoculated against smallpox, a controversial procedure at the time.[6]
At the request of the naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Guéneau became a contributor to the Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roy.[7]
In 1764 he was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Dijon
Works (selection)
References
- ^ Biographie universelle; ou, Dictionnaire histoirique, contenant la nécrologie des hommes célèbres de tous les pays, des articles consacrés a l'histoire générale des peuples aux batailles memorables, aux grands evénements politiques, aux diverses sectes religieuses, etc., etc.; depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'a nos jours, vol. 3 (Paris: Furne, 1838) 112–113.
- ^ Genealogy of the Family.
- ^ Thesaurus, Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL)
- ^ Frank A. Kafker and Serena L. Kafker, The Encyclopedists as Individuals: A Biographical Dictionary of the Authors of the Encyclopédie (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1988), 167.
- ^ Genealogy his wife
- ^ Kafker and Kafker, Encyclopedists as Individuals, 168.
- ^ Biographie universelle et ancienne et moderne : histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits, leurs actions, leurs vertus ou leurs crimes. Philibert Gueneau de Montbeillard (1720−1785)
Bibliography
- E. C. Spary; Emma C. Spary: Utopia's Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution. University of Chicago Press (2000) ISBN 0-226-76863-5
- G. Roth: Un ami de Diderot: Guéneau de Montbeillard. Mercure de France, January 1960, (p. 71–91)
External links
- Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard on Wikisource
- Anthony S. Cheke: Data sources for 18th century French encyclopaedists – what they used and omitted: evidence of data lost and ignored from the Mascarene Islands, Indian Ocean. Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series Vol. 177 (9): 91-117; published on 28 April (2009), (p. 97), online (PDF; 1,3 MB)
- Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard on data.bnf.fr
