Étienne Mignot de Montigny (15 December 1714, in Paris – 6 May 1782) was a French engineer and geographer.
He studied the textile industries in England, Switzerland, and France in the 1730s. He was then appointed a commissioner in the Ministry of Commerce. He was responsible for making improvements to industry and commerce through the application of new inventions and machinery. From 1758 to 1782 he was a member of the
Académie Royale des Sciences. He was also an associate of the
Prussian Academy of Sciences.
[Mignot de Montigny, Étienne]
Sociétés savantes de France
With
César-François Cassini de Thury
C̩sar-Fran̤ois Cassini de Thury (17 June 1714 Р4 September 1784), also called Cassini III or Cassini de Thury, was a French astronomer and cartographer.
Biography
Cassini de Thury was born in Thury-sous-Clermont, in the Oise departme ...
and
Charles Étienne Louis Camus, he published the ''Carte de la France''.
[Montigny, Etienne Mignot de (1714-1782)]
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Associated works
* ''Instruction et avis aux habitans des provinces m̩ridionales de la France, sur la maladie putride et pestilentielle qui d̩truit le b̩tail'', 1775 РTraining and advice to the inhabitants of the southern provinces of France concerning the putrid and pestilential disease that destroys livestock.
* ''Méthode d’apprêter les cuirs et les peaux, telle qu’on la pratique à la Louisiane'', 1780 – Method of preparing hides and skins, as practiced in Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
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* ''Les voyageurs en Bretagne : voyage de Mignot de Montigny de l'Acad̩mie des Sciences en Bretagne, en 1752'' (edition by Henri Bourde de La Rogerie, 1926) РThe voyagers of Brittany
Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, Historical region, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known ...
; voyage of Mignot de Montigny in Brittany in 1752.[
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1714 births
1782 deaths
French engineers
French geographers
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
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