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About Jean-Paul Bignon
The Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon, Cong.Orat. was a French ecclesiastic, statesman, writer and preacher and librarian to King Louis XIV. His protégé, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, named the genus Bignonia after him in 1694.
Everything about Jean-Paul Bignon →- Occupation
- librarian, Catholic priest, regular priest
- Position held
- abbot, president of the French Academy of Sciences, Member of the Académie française, president of the French Academy of Sciences
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- September 19, 1662
- Died
- March 14, 1743