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. He first fled to Geneva then to Berlin. In 1732, he became a citizen of Geneva, and later gouverneur de Neuchâtel and in 1752, a member of the Council of Two Hundred (). 22 October 1764, he married Genève Olympe Camp (1709-1785) in Geneva. Lubières is the author of ''Éloge du mathématicien

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* Albert Choisy, Louis Théophile Dufour-Vernes et al., ''Recueil généalogique suisse'', t. 1, Genève, A. Jullien, 1902, (p. 309).

External links

Laurence-Isaline Stahl-Gretsch: ''Rousseau et les Savants Genevois.'' Musée d’histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève (2012) p. 30, accessdate 20 August 2016
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Portrait of Charles Benjamin de Langes de Montmirail, Baron de Lubières
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lubieres, Charles 18th-century scientists from the Republic of Geneva Mathematicians from the Republic of Geneva Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772) 1714 births 1790 deaths