Jacques Montet (9 March 1722 in
Beaulieu near
Le Vigan – 13 November 1782 in
Montpellier
Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...
) was an 18th-century French pharmacist, chemist and
encyclopediste.
Biography
Jacques Montet was born in Beaulieu, near Vigan from Gabriel Montet and Madeleine Gaubert.
Thanks to an Englishman, whom he accompanied on his trips to Switzerland, interest in the natural sciences was awakened in Montet, in particular for chemistry. So much so that his first visit to Paris led him to attend the lectures of
Guillaume-François Rouelle
Guillaume François Rouelle (, 15 September 1703 – 3 August 1770) was a French chemist and apothecary. In 1754 he introduced the concept of a base into chemistry as a substance which reacts with an acid to form a salt).
He is known as ''l'Aîn ...
.
Montet went then to Montpellier in order to follow a pharmacist training. In 1748 he became a member of the '. Later he became demonstrator under
Gabriel François Venel
Gabriel François Venel (23 August 1723, Tourbes – 29 October 1775, Pézenas) was a French chemist, physician and a contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'', (673 items; In 1742 he obtained his doctorate in medicine from the University of Montpellie ...
whose lecture in chemistry he also benefited.
Montet continued his researches on various topics and also dealt with general
natural history. His work on physics, natural history and agriculture in a part of the
Cevennes, were published in the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences of Montpellier. He eventually wrote three articles for the volumes XV and XVI of the ''
Encyclopédie'' von
Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a promine ...
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert, ''Tartre'', ''Tournesol'' and ''Vert-de-gris, ou Verdet''
In February 1769, he married Gillette Carchet fromp Montpellier but the couple remained childless.
Louis Dulieu: ''Apothicaires, académiciens de Montpellier.'' Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie. Year 1955, Volume 43 , n° 145 (p. 86–91)
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References
Works
* ''L'Art de faire le vert-de-gris'', ''Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences de Paris'', 1750-1753-1756 ;
* ''Sur le sel lixiviel de tamaris'', ''Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences'', 1757 ;
* ''Sur un grand nombre de volcans éteints qu'on a trouvés dans le bas Languedoc'', ''Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences de Paris'', 1760 ;
* ''Description des Marais de Peccais, salins de Peccais'', ''Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences de Paris'', 1763 ;
* ''Sur la manière de conserver en tout temps les cristaux de l'alcali fixe'', 1765 ;
* ''Sur la morsure de la vipère'', 1773, etc.
Bibliography
* René-Nicolas Dufriche Desgenettes
René-Nicolas Dufriche, baron Desgenettes (23 May 1762, Alençon – 3 February 1837, Paris) was a French military doctor. He was chief doctor to the French army in Egypt and at Waterloo.
Life
Early life
Son of a lawyer at the Parliament of ...
: ''Éloges des Académiciens de Montpellier. Pour servir à l'histoire des sciences dans le XVIIIe''. Bossange et Masson, Paris 1811, (p. 242–249).
* Pierre Larousse, ''Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe, Vol. 11''. Administration du grand Dictionnaire universel, Paris, (p. 505).
* Michel Nicolas: ''Histoire littéraire de Nimes, et des localités voisines qui forment actuellement le département du Gard''. Ballivet et Fabre, Nîmes 1854, (p. 243)–245).
* Louis Dulieu: ''Apothicaires, académiciens de Montpellier''. In: ''Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie'', vol. 57 (1955), n° 145
(p. 87–91)
(ISSN 0035-2349)
* Jacques Proust: ''Les encyclopédistes, la Société royale des sciences et l'Université de médecine de Montpellier in "Monspeliensis Hippocrates", 1968''. In: ''Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie'', Bd. 57 (1969), n° 202
(p. 452)
(ISSN 0035-2349)
* Jacques-Alexandre Poitevin: ''Éloge de M. Montet, par M. Poitevin.'' Impr. de J. Martel aîné, Paris 1783.
External links
* Académie de sciences et lettres de Montpellier:
Membres de la Société Royale (1706-1793)
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Jacques Montet
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Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772)
18th-century French chemists
French pharmacists
1722 births
1782 deaths