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Jean-Henri-Nicolas Bouillet

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Jean-Henri-Nicolas Bouillet (December 1729, Béziers – 22 January 1790, id.) was an 18th-century French physician, Encyclopédiste and mayor of Béziers from 1787 to 1790.[1]

Bouillet was the first son of a doctor from Béziers, Jean Bouillet (1690–1777) and his wife Catherine Marsals (born 1700). Jean-Henri-Nicolas had a younger brother, Michel Jean Louis Bouillet (born 1732) and two older sisters, Catherine Jacquette (born 1723) and Gabrielle Bouillet (circa 1727-1789).[2] He was a member of the Académie de Béziers [fr].

Works (selection)

He contributed the article Faculté to the 6th volume of the Encyclopédie by Diderot, 1751, vol.6, (p. 361–371) ;

Maxime Laignel-Lavastine called him an "epidemiologist and pioneer of social medicine".

Bibliography

  • Louis-Gabriel Michaud: Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne: histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes avec la collaboration de plus de 300 savants et littérateurs français ou étrangers. 2. Ausgabe, (1843–1865)
  • Jacques Proust: L'encyclopédisme dans le Bas-Languedoc au XVIIIe siècle. Montpellier 1968

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