Guillaume d’Abbes, baron de Cabrerolles (21 March 1718,

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Biography

Abbes came from an Occitan family of judges. His father was Guillaume Abbes, seigneur de Courbeson (born 1679), his mother Elisabeth de Valery, married since 1717. On 11 February 1741, Guillaume d’Abbes de Cabrebolles married Marie Jeanne Aphrodise de Gineste in

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with whom he had a daughter, Marie Claire Aphrodise d’Abbes de Cabrerolles. Admitted to the bar in 1741, he practised in this capacity from 1749 to 1789 and worked as ''correcteur à la chambre des comptes de Montpellier''. Abbes de Cabrebolles was a member of the . He wrote the article ''Physiologie'' for the ''

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Works (selection)

*1745: ''Relation des inondations arrivées à la ville de Bédarieux en 1745.'' Reprint (1838) *1758: ''Voyage dans les espaces imaginaires.'' London,

References

External links

Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs des dix-sept volumes de « discours » de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, year 1989, Volume 7, issue 7, (p. 126)
on Persée.
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