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Authorised form of nameCollet; Philibert (1643 - 1718)
Dates1643 - 1718
NationalityFrench
Place of birthChatillon-les-Dombes, France
Date of birth26 February 1643
Place of deathChatillon-les-Dombes, France
Date of death30 March 1718
Research fieldBotany
ActivityEducation:
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
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/11/1711
ProposerBenjamin or Joseph Morland
RelationshipsSon of Pierre Collet, Notary and Steward of the Princesse des Dombes, and his wife, Suzanne Girard; married [...] Guichenon, a Huguenot convert
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DBF
CodeNA6768
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