Jean-Baptiste de Secondat baron de La Brède (12 February 1716 – 17 June 1796) was an 18th-century French naturalist botanist, and agronomist. He was the eldest son of
Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Baron de La Brède (1689–1755) and Jeanne Catherine de Lartigue (1689–1770).
Some publications
Books
* 1749: ''Considérations sur le commerce et la navigation de la Grande-Bretagne'', by Joshua Gee, translated from English
Honors
Eponimous
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Fagaceae
The Fagaceae are a family of flowering plants that includes beeches, chestnuts and oaks, and comprises eight genera with about 927 species. Fagaceae in temperate regions are mostly deciduous, whereas in the tropics, many species occur as ever ...
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Quercus
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus ''Quercus'' (; Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae. There are approximately 500 extant species of oaks. The common name "oak" also appears in the names of species in related genera, notably ...
secondatii''
Steud.[Nomencl. Bot. teudel674. 1821 (IK)]
References
External links
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18th-century French botanists
French agronomists
Montesquieu
English–French translators
18th-century French historians
1716 births
1796 deaths