Pierre Augustin Boissier de Sauvages or François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix (28 August 1710,

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– 13 December 1795) was a French naturalist, researcher in

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and encyclopédist. His brother was the physician

François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix (May 12, 1706 – February 19, 1767) was a French physician and botanist who was a native of Alès. He was the brother of naturalist Pierre Augustin Boissier de Sauvages (1710—1795). He received his edu ...

He studied

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in Paris, and later returned to his hometown of Alès, where he taught classes in sciences, philosophy and theology. In 1746 he became a member of the Société Royale des Sciences à Montpellier. In 1771 he was ordained as a priest.

Published works

* ''Dictionnaire languedocien-françois'' (1756) –

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-French dictionary. * ''Mémoires sur l'éducation des vers à soie'', (1763) – On

silkworm The domestic silk moth (''Bombyx mori''), is an insect from the moth family Bombycidae. It is the closest relative of ''Bombyx mandarina'', the wild silk moth. The silkworm is the larva or caterpillar of a silk moth. It is an economically imp ...

s. * ''De la culture des mûriers'', (1763) – The cultivation of

mulberry tree ''Morus'', a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, consists of diverse species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions. Generally, the genus has 64 identif ...

s. * ''Observations sur l'origine du miel'', (1763) – Observations on the origin of honey. * "Directions for the breeding and management of silk-worms" (1770); (extracted from treatises by Abbé Boissier de Sauvages and Samuel Pullein; translated and epitomized by Jonathan Odell).Most widely held works about Boissier de Sauvages
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