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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

1707 to 1788 6 documented presences 5 places

Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon across 5 places, from 1728 to 1788. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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1728year
Dijonattested “In 1728 Georges left Dijon to study mathematics and medicine at the University of Angers in France.” source: Wikipedia: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1728year
University of Angersattested “In 1728 Georges left Dijon to study mathematics and medicine at the University of Angers in France.” source: Wikipedia: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1728year
Franceattested “In 1728 Georges left Dijon to study mathematics and medicine at the University of Angers in France.” source: Wikipedia: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1732year
Dijonattested “In 1732 after the death of his mother and before the impending remarriage of his father, Georges left Kingston and returned to Dijon to secure his inheritance.” source: Wikipedia: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1753 to 1768period
American Philosophical Societyattested “Thanks to his talent as a writer, he was invited to join the Académie Française in 1753 and then in 1768 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.” source: Wikipedia: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1788year
Parisattested “Buffon died in Paris in 1788.” source: Wikipedia: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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Places Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon is documented in

Dijon2 presences · 1728 to 1732American Philosophical Society1 presence · 1753France1 presence · 1728Paris1 presence · 1788
University of Angers1 presence · 1728

Other places tied to Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in the record

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1723 to 1726period
Dijonmentioned “From 1723 to 1726 he then studied law in Dijon, the prerequisite for continuing the family tradition in civil service.” source: Wikipedia: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1730year
Angersmentioned “At Angers in 1730 he made the acquaintance of Evelyn Pierrepont, the young English Duke of Kingston, who was on his grand tour of Europe, and traveled with him on a large and expensive entourage for a year and a half through southern Fra…” source: Wikipedia: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1732year
Parismentioned “In 1732 he moved to Paris, where he met Voltaire and other intellectuals.” source: Wikipedia: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1734year
French Academymentioned “In 1734 he was admitted to the French Academy of Sciences.” source: Wikipedia: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1752year
Burgundy (historical region)mentioned “In 1752 Buffon married Marie-Françoise de Saint-Belin-Malain, the daughter of an impoverished noble family from Burgundy, who had been enrolled in the convent school run by his sister.” source: Wikipedia: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1772year
Burgundy (historical region)mentioned “When in 1772 Buffon became seriously ill and the promise that his son (then only 8) should succeed him as director of the Jardin became clearly impracticable and was withdrawn, the King raised Buffon's estates in Burgundy to the status o…” source: Wikipedia: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1776year
Parismentioned “Today, only Buffon's cerebellum remains, as it is kept in the base of the statue by Pajou that Louis XVI had commissioned in his honor in 1776, located at the Museum of Natural History in Paris.” source: Wikipedia: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
1776year
National Museum of Natural History, Francementioned “Today, only Buffon's cerebellum remains, as it is kept in the base of the statue by Pajou that Louis XVI had commissioned in his honor in 1776, located at the Museum of Natural History in Paris.” source: Wikipedia: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Documented at the same place, the same year

Joseph-Ignace GuillotinParis · 1788Jan Ladislav DussekParis · 1788Albrecht von HallerFrance · 1728Charlotte Aglaé d'OrléansFrance · 1728

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