Charles Joseph Devillers or de Villers (1724 in

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– 1810) was a

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naturalist. Charles Devillers was a member of l’Académie des sciences belles-lettres et arts de

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from 1764 to 1810. He had a cabinet of curiosities and was interested in

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and

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. He published ''Caroli Linnaei entomologia'', in 1789, a collection of the insect descriptions of Carl von Linné. He was a friend of

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(1727–1773),

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(1741–1814) and

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(1729–1793).

References

*Pascal Duris (1993).'' Linné et la France (1780-1850)'', 318, Librairie Droz (Genève), collection Histoire des idées et critique littéraire : 281 p. French entomologists French naturalists 1724 births 1810 deaths French taxonomists 18th-century French zoologists 19th-century French zoologists {{France-scientist-stub