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Guillaume Barthez de Marmorieres

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Native name
  
Guillaume Barthez

Fields
  
Civil engineer

Name
  
Guillaume de

Citizenship
  
France

Institutions
  
Province of Languedoc

Born
  
March 2, 1707 Narbonne (France) (
1707-03-02
)

Died
  
January 17, 1799(1799-01-17) (aged 91) Narbonne (France)

Known for
  
Two entries in the Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert.

Guillaume Barthez de Marmorieres (2 March 1707 - 11 January 1799) was a French civil engineer.

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Biography

Son of an architect, he was born in Narbonne in southern France. He became a civil engineer for the province of Languedoc. He was elected to the Academie des sciences et lettres de Montpellier (fr), gained a wide reputation through either his writings or the works he supervised.

He was called upon to edit or contribute two entries in the Encyclopedie of Diderot and d’Alembert.

He was made a hereditary nobleman de Marmorieres in 1780 by letters patent of Louis XVI.

He was the father of Paul Joseph Barthez physician, physiologist and encyclopedist who developed the biological theory known as vitalism.

He died in Narbonne in 1799 at the age of 91.

Selected works

  • Essai sur divers avantages que l'on pourrait retirer de la cote de Languedoc relativement a la navigation et a l'agriculture. De l'imprimerie d'Yverdon. 1769. 
  • Memoires d’agriculture et de mecanique, avec les moyens de remedier aux abus du jaugeage des vaisseaux dans tous les ports du roi, Paris, 1763, in-8°
  • Traite des moyens de rendre la cote de la province de Languedoc plus florissante que jamais. De l'Imprimerie de Jean Martel aine imprimeur ordinaire du roi & de noffeigneurs des Etats-Generanx de la province de Languedoc. 1786. pp. 5–. 
  • Nouveaux essais sur la noblesse. Societe Typographique. 1781. 

    • References

    Guillaume Barthez de Marmorieres Wikipedia
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