Person Collet; Philibert (1643 - 1718) Collet Philibert jurisconsult and botanist 1643 - 1718 French Male Chatillon-les-Dombes, France 26 February 1643 Chatillon-les-Dombes, France 30 March 1718

Botany 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 Son of Pierre Collet, Notary and Steward of the Princesse des Dombes, and his wife, Suzanne Girard; married [...] Guichenon, a Huguenot convert Fellow 30/11/1711 Benjamin or Joseph Morland Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DBF International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 26 Feb 1643 - 30 Mar 1718 NA6768 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 24/02/2025 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes 867b6e41-65af-4fa2-a580-59d34248daaf