Jean Antoine Coquebert de Montbret (1753,

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- 6 April 1825) was a French

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. He wrote ''Illustratio iconographica insectorum quae in musaeis parisinis observavit et in lucem edidit Joh. Christ. Fabricius, praemissis ejusdem descriptionibus; accedunt species plurimae, vel minus aut nondum cognitae'', Paris: P. Didot, 1799-1804 an illustrated work on insect specimens in the

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in Paris. The insects appear as inside an insect box.

References

*Laboulais-Lesage, Isabelle,1999 ''Lectures et pratiques de l’espace. L’itinéraire de Coquebert de Montbret, savant et grand commis de l’État'' Paris, Honoré Champion

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Digitised ''Illustratio iconographica insectorum ...'' French entomologists 1753 births 1825 deaths National Museum of Natural History (France) people {{entomologist-stub