Guillaume Barthez de Marmorières (2 March 1707 – 11 January 1799) was a French

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Biography

Son of an architect, he was born in

Narbonne Narbonne ( , , ; ; ; Late Latin:) is a commune in Southern France in the Occitanie region. It lies from Paris in the Aude department, of which it is a sub-prefecture. It is located about from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and was ...

in southern France. He became a civil engineer for the province of

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. He was elected to the Académie des sciences et lettres de Montpellier ( fr), gained a wide reputation through either his writings or the works he supervised. He was called upon to edit or contribute two entries in the ''

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'' of

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and

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. He was made a hereditary nobleman ''de Marmorières'' in 1780 by

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. He was the father of Paul Joseph Barthez physician, physiologist and encyclopedist who developed the biological theory known as

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. He died in Narbonne in 1799 at the age of 91.

Selected works

* * ''Mémoires d’agriculture et de mécanique, avec les moyens de remédier aux abus du jaugeage des vaisseaux dans tous les ports du roi'', Paris, 1763, in-8° * *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barthez de Marmorieres, Guillaume People from Narbonne 1707 births 1799 deaths Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772) 18th-century French engineers