Guillaume Barthez de Marmorières
| Guillaume Barthez de Marmorières | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Guillaume Barthez |
| Born | 2 March 1707 Narbonne (France) |
| Died | Error: Need valid death date (first date): year, month, day Narbonne (France) |
| Citizenship |  France |
| Fields | Civil engineer |
| Institutions | Province of Languedoc |
| Known for | Two entries in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert. |
| Children | Paul Joseph Barthez |
Guillaume Barthez de Marmorières (2 March 1707 – 11 January 1799) was a French civil engineer.
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 Académie 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 Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert.[1]
He was made a hereditary nobleman de Marmorières in 1780 by letters patent of Louis XVI.[2]
He was the father of the writer Antoine Barthez de Marmorières and 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
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- Mémoires d’agriculture et de mécanique, avec les moyens de remédier aux abus du jaugeage des vaisseaux dans tous les ports du roi, Paris, 1763, in-8°
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