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Jean-Paul Bignon

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French priest and man of letters

FranceReligious FiguresLived 1662 to 1743 · aged 80
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The Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon, Cong.Orat. was a French ecclesiastic, statesman, writer and preacher and librarian to King Louis XIV. His protégé, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, named the genus Bignonia after him in 1694.

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Dedication to Bignon in a 1717 copy of volume I of "Œuvres de M. Mariotte," by Edme MariotteDedication to Bignon in a 1717 copy of volume I of "Œuvres de M. Mariotte," by Edme Mariotte

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Fellow of the Royal Society

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Country
France
Category
Religious Figures
Type
Religious Figure
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1662 to 1743 · aged 80
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5 languages

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