Gabriel Calloet de Querbrat, was born at an unknown date between 1616 and 1620 in Kerbrat-en-Servel, and died in Lannion on June 30, 1697 aged around 80. He was a Breton Catholic agriculturist and writer.
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Calloet-Kerbrat had a passion for bees.
Calloet-Kerbrat's "rateau" (rake). Plate from Noël Chomel's Dictionnaire Oeconomique, 1760 edition.
Gorse on a Breton beach. Calloet-Kerbrat had invented a machine to extract fodder.
Colbert, painted by Philippe de Champaigne in 1666, the year Gabriel Calloet-Kerbrat presented him with his work.
Sheep in the Marais Poitevin. Calloet-Kerbrat was interested in the animals brought in by the Dutch, who were working to drain the marsh.
Charles Démia, Calloet-Kerbrat's friend and correspondent, anonymous Frontispiece portrait of his Trésor clérical, second edition, 1694.
Academician Paul Pellisson, a close friend of Gabriel Calloet-Kerbrat.Writers from France 6
About this person
Gabriel Calloet de Querbrat, was born at an unknown date between 1616 and 1620 in Kerbrat-en-Servel, and died in Lannion on June 30, 1697 aged around 80. He was a Breton Catholic agriculturist and writer. Considered to have introduced the idea of zootechnical improvement through cross-breeding to France, he played an important role in the establishment of hôpitaux généraux in the seventeenth century.
Country
FranceCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1616 to 1697 · aged 81
Written about in
5 languages
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