| Authorised form of name | Collet; Philibert (1643 - 1718) |
| Dates | 1643 - 1718 |
| Nationality | French |
| Place of birth | Chatillon-les-Dombes, France |
| Date of birth | 26 February 1643 |
| Place of death | Chatillon-les-Dombes, France |
| Date of death | 30 March 1718 |
| Research field | Botany |
| Activity | Education:
Jesuit College in Lyon; Valence (admitted 1668)
Career:
Entered the Society of Jesus at Avignon; taught literature at the Jesuit Schools of Dole and Roanne; took his final vows (1663); after the death of his elder brother, he fled to England and subsequently left the order (1668); Mayor of Chatillon (1670); rebuilt the town after a fire; Attorney General to the Parlement des Dombes at Lyon (1673-1693); Counsellor at the Presidial court (1693); engaged in numerous law suits; secretly buried a body in the family vault and when this was discovered assaulted the parish priest and was excommunicated (1681), after which he became strongly anticlerical; proposed a system of botanical classification based on leaf shape
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 30/11/1711 |
| Proposer | Benjamin or Joseph Morland |
| Relationships | Son of Pierre Collet, Notary and Steward of the Princesse des Dombes, and his wife, Suzanne Girard; married [...] Guichenon, a Huguenot convert |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DBF |
| Code | NA6768 |