| Reference number | EC/1734/11 |
| Previous numbers | Cert I, 47; A00617 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Bignon, Jean Paul: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 7 November 1734 |
| Citation | Dominus Johannes Paulus Bignon
Abbot of St Quintin, for Sevral years President of the Royal Academies of Sciences, Inscriptions, and of Belle Lettres & one of the forty of the French Academy, Councellor of State in Ordinary, & Grand Librarian to his most Christian Majesty.
A Person well known to the Learned World not only on Account of his descent from Ancestors famous in the Republick of Letters but for his Universal Learning, & also his great zeal in promoting Natural knowledge, of which the Royal Academy of Sciences is a great Instance, in the Regulation whereof in the year 1699 he was very Instrumental.
This Gentleman being desirous of becoming a Member of the Royal Society is recommended by us whose Names are underwritten |
| Proposers | Hans Sloane; Cadogan; R. Middleton Massey; Cromll Mortimer; Roger Gale; John Machin |
| Access status | Open |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA6788 | Bignon; Jean Paul (1662 - 1743) | 1662 - 1743 |