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Authorised form of nameMontmort; Pierre Remond de (1678 - 1719)
Other forms of namePierre de
Pierre Remond
Other forms of surnameRemond
de Montmort
Dates1678 - 1719
NationalityFrench
Place of birthParis, France
Date of birth27 October 1678
Place of deathParis, France
Date of death07 October 1719
OccupationClergyman, Roman Catholic
Research fieldProbability
ActivityCareer:
Began to study law but ran away to England and Germany, returning to France (1699); Canon of Notre Dame de Paris; bought the estate of Montmort and abandoned his orders to marry; travelled to England to witness a total eclipse of the Sun (1715); died of smallpox
Memberships:
Academie Royale des Sciences (1716)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election09/06/1715
RelationshipsSon of Francois Remond and his wife Marguerite Relle; married a niece of the Duchess of Angouleme
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Notes:
Proposed by Sir Isaac Newton
CodeNA7789
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
MS/82/15Letter, from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor]12 April 1716
MS/82/17Letter, from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor], dated at Paris22 July 1717
MS/82/16Letter, from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [John Taylor], dated at Paris28 March 1717
MS/82/8Extracts from [Jean] Bernoulli's letter to [Pierre Remond de] Montmort14 February 1719
MS/82/20Letter, from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor]30 January 1719
MS/82/13Letter, from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor], dated at Paris31 March 1716
MS/82/14Letter, from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor], dated at Paris12 April 1716
MS/82/11Letter, from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor], dated at Montmort [Saône, France]6 September 1715
MS/82/18Letter, from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor], dated at Montmort [Saône, France]1 August 1717
MS/82/21Letter, from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor], dated at Paris26 March 1719
MS/82/19Letter, from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor], dated at Paris26 April 1718
MS/82/12Letter, from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to [Brook Taylor], dated at Montmort [Saône, France]2 January 1716
MS/82/8aCopy letter, from [Brook Taylor] to [Pierre Remond de] Montmort14 February 1719
MM/5/49Letter from Brooke Taylor, near Canterbury, to Isaac Newton22 April 1716
MS/82Correspondence of Dr Brook Taylor, Secretary of the Royal Society1712-1717
EL/W3/84Letter, from Richard Waller to Pierre Remond de Monmort from Paris7 May 1714
MS/82/15aIncomplete letter, from [Pierre Remond de] Montmort to unnamed correspondent1715-1727
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