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Mabillon, Jean

(Encyclopedia) Mabillon, JeanMabillon, JeanzhäN mäbēyôNˈ [key], 1623–1707, French scholar, a Benedictine monk. His De re diplomatica (1681; with a supplementary volume, 1704) was the first attempt to…

Cruveilhier, Jean

(Encyclopedia) Cruveilhier, JeanCruveilhier, JeanzhäN krüvĕyāˈ [key], 1791–1874, French physician. The first professor of pathology at the Univ. of Paris (from 1836), he introduced the descriptive…

Darboux, Jean Gaston

(Encyclopedia) Darboux, Jean GastonDarboux, Jean GastonzhäN gästôNˈ därb&oomacr;ˈ [key], 1842–1917, French mathematician. He is known for his work on orthogonal surfaces and for his application…

Portalis, Jean Étienne Marie

(Encyclopedia) Portalis, Jean Étienne MariePortalis, Jean Étienne MariezhäN ātyĕnˈ märēˈ pôrtälēsˈ [key], 1746–1807, French statesman and lawyer. A moderate, he was suspected of royalist sympathies…

La Ceppède, Jean de

(Encyclopedia) La Ceppède, Jean deLa Ceppède, Jean dezhäN də lä sĕpĕdˈ [key], 1550–1622, French poet and magistrate. In 1608 he was appointed president of the Court of the Exchequer of Provence.…

Lesueur, Jean François

(Encyclopedia) Lesueur or Le Sueur, Jean FrançoisLesueur or Le Sueur, Jean FrançoiszhäN fräNswäˈ [key], 1760–1837, French composer. During the French Revolution his operas, such as La Caverne (1793)…

Guébriant, Jean Baptiste Budes, comte de

(Encyclopedia) Guébriant, Jean Baptiste Budes, comte deGuébriant, Jean Baptiste Budes, comte dezhäN bätēstˈ büd kôNt də gābrēäNˈ [key], 1602–43, marshal of France and general in the Thirty Years War…

Nollet, Jean Antoine

(Encyclopedia) Nollet, Jean AntoineNollet, Jean AntoinezhäN äNtwänˈ nôlāˈ [key], 1700–1770, French clergyman, experimental physicist, and leading member of the Paris Academy of Science. He…

Oberlin, Jean Frédéric

(Encyclopedia) Oberlin, Jean FrédéricOberlin, Jean FrédériczhäN frādārēkˈ ôbĕrlăNˈ [key], 1740–1826, Alsatian Lutheran clergyman. He was appointed in 1767 to a pastorate in Ban-de-la-Roche, Bas-Rhin…

Metzinger, Jean

(Encyclopedia) Metzinger, JeanMetzinger, JeanzhäN mĕtsăNzhārˈ [key], 1883–1956, French painter and writer. With Gleizes he wrote Du cubisme (1912, tr. 1913), which presented the philosophical basis…