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Jean-Paul Bignon, French priest and man of letters (died 1743)

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Jean-Paul Bignon

French ecclesiastic, statesman, writer, preacher and librarian to Louis XIV of France

The Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon, Cong.Orat. was a French ecclesiastic, statesman, writer and preacher and librarian to Louis XIV of France. His protégé, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, named the genus Bignonia after him in 1694.
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