BUFFON, GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE

zhôrzh lwē ləklĕrkˈ kôNt də büfôNˈ, 1707–88, French naturalist and author. From 1739 he was keeper of the Jardin du Roi (later the Jardin des Plantes) in Paris and made it a center of research during the Enlightenment. He devoted his life to his monumental Histoire naturelle (44 vol., 1749–1804), a popular and brilliantly written compendium of data on natural history interspersed with Buffon's own speculations and theories. Of this work, the volumes Histoire naturelle des animaux and Époques de la nature are of special interest. His famous Discours sur le style was delivered (1753) on his reception into the French Academy. He also contributed to the mathematics of probability.

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A Modern Maistre: The Social and Political Thought of Joseph de Maistre
Book by Owen Bradley; University of Nebraska Press, 1999
Subjects: Maistre, Joseph Marie--Comte De--1753-1821--Contributions In Political Science, Maistre, Joseph Marie--Comte De--1753-1821--Contributions In Sociology
...Joseph Marie, comte de, 1753-1821...conversations with Jean-Louis Darcel and George...social order, Louis Gabriel Ambroise, vicomte de Bonald 1754-1840...observing that Louis XVIII mounted the...and the Croix de Feu . These political...
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Victims, Authority, and Terror: The Parallel Deaths of d'orlaeans, Custine, Bailly, and Malesherbes
Book by George Armstrong Kelly; University of North Carolina Press, 1982
Subjects: Bailly, Jean Sylvain--1736-1793, Custine, Adam Philippe--comte de--1740-1793, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Biography, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Causes, Malesherbes, Chretien Guillaume de Lamoignon de--1721-1794, Orleans, Louis Philippe Joseph--duc d'--1747-1793
...XVIII and the Comte dArtois later...himself then Duc de Chartres , the...the reign of Louis XV. 15 It...taste, Agnes de Buffon, Grace Dalrymple...November 1787, Louis XVI, at the...into a lit de justice , exiling...where Agnes de Buffon could join him...preside. The Comte de Provence...
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Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science
Book by Edward Lurie; University of Chicago Press, 1960
Subjects: Agassiz, Louis--1807-1873
...Baron Georges Cuvier about...1807-1827 Louis AGASSIZ was...College de Bienne in...de Monet de Lamarck, and Georges Cuvier. From...their effect. Louis, who had confided...only wanted Louis to come home...B. G. E. de Lacepede...
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The Utopian Thought of Restif de la Bretonne
Book by Mark Poster; New York University Press, 1971
Subjects: Literature And Society--France--History--18th Century, Restif De La Bretonne--1734-1806--Political And Social Views, Social Problems In Literature, Utopias In Literature
...Lely, " Le Marquis de Sade et Retif de la Bretonne ," Mercure de France , No. 1130 1957 , pp. 364-366. would groan under...sensuality. Restif erected his own prison on the Ile Saint-Louis to relive his affairs by rereading signatures of passion he had...
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Philosophical Writings of Etienne Bonnot, Abbe de Condillac - Vol. 2
Book by Franklin Philip, Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, Harlan Lane; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1982
Subjects: Senses And Sensation, Thought And Thinking
...Louise-Elisabeth, elder daughter of Louis XV and through marriage the duchess...edition of Condillacs works edited by Georges Le Roy, Oeuvres Philosophiques de Condillac , Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1948. This publication was...
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Rue Cuvier, Rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, Rue Lamarck: Politics and Science in the Streets of Paris
Journal article by Freeman G. Henry; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 35, 2007
Subjects: Cuvier, Georges-Leopold-Chretien-Frederic-Dagobert, Baron--Appreciation, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne--Appreciation, Larmarck, Jean Baptiste--Appreciation, Paris, France--History, Scientists--Appreciation, Street names--History
...Bernard, 1699-1777; Joseph, 1704-1779), and Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788) who served as director from 1739...turn the garden upside down. In the interim Buffon had died and Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, author of Etudes sur la nature...
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Chevreul and Impressionism: a Reappraisal
Journal article by Georges Roque; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 78, 1996
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Chevreul, Michel-Eugene (1786-1889), Color, Monet, Claude (1840-1926), Pissarro, Camille, Theory, Visual artists
...them only blue, sometimes a very vivid blue, sometimes a pale blue or a dark blue, but constantly blue"; Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, "Sur les couleurs accidentelles," Memoires de lAcademie des Sciences, 1743, reprinted in J.-L. Binet et...
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The Republic of Beavers: An American Utopia
Journal article by Arnold L. Kerson; Utopian Studies, Vol. 11, 2000
Subjects: Landivar y Caballero, Rafael--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rusticatio Mexicana (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Utopias in literature--Latin America
...Mexicana: Natural History and Political Subversion." Ideologies and Literature 1.3 (Otono 1985): 9-30. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de. Histoire naturelle, generale et particuliere, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi. Paris: DImprimerie...
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The Beaver and His Cousin in Cooper's the Last of the Mohicans
Journal article by Edward W. Pitcher; American Notes & Queries, Vol. 8, 1995
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Philology, Motion Pictures
...The Contemplation of Nature . 2 vols. London: T. Longman, T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1766 . Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de. Natural History . Trans. by William Smellie. 2nd Edition. 9 vols. London: Printed for W. Strahan...
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A Man Made to Measure: Benjamin Franklin, American Philosophe
Journal article by Karen Duval; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 96, 2006
Subjects: Autobiographical literature, Dashkova, Ekaterina Romanovna, Franklin, Benjamin (1706-90), Personal profiles, Professional relationships, Scientists, Writers
...naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, who urged...Societe Royale de Londres appeared...months later Buffon and Dalibard...and King Louis XV, who had...beginning with Buffon in 1768. In 1772 Louis XV himself...the Oeuvres de M. Franklin...
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Darwin's Origin Transforms Culture
Magazine article by Peter W. Graham; World and I, Vol. 14, August 1999
Subjects: Darwin, Charles--Criticism and interpretation, Human evolution--Criticism and interpretation, Sociobiology--Criticism and interpretation
...grandfather, Erasmus, and the French naturalists Georges-Louis Leclerc (Comte de Buffon) and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Of the three, Lamarck...paleontologist and Jesuit mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin developed a theology based on the premise...
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Humanist Potpourri
Magazine article by Warren Allen Smith; Free Inquiry, Vol. 15, Fall 1995
Subjects: American Academy of Arts and Letters--Membership, Humanists--Associations and societies
...1827-1907), chemist; Comte de Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (1707-1788), deist...of pagan philosophy; Georges Duhamel (1884-1966...Charles Marie Rene Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894...nomads"; Baron Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu...


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Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BUFFON, GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE zhorzh lwe l klerk koNt d bufoN...on natural history interspersed with Buffons own speculations and theories. Of this...naturelle des animaux and Epoques de la nature are of special interest...


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