Jean Piveteau
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Professor of Palaeontology, University of Paris, 1938–70. Editor of Oeuvres philosophiques de Buffon.
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon was a French naturalist, remembered for his comprehensive work on natural history, Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière (begun in 1749). He was created a count in 1773. Buffon’s father, Benjamin Leclerc, was a state official in Burgundy; his mother was…
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