Guillaume d'Abbes de Cabrebolles

Guillaume d'Abbes de Cabrebolles (also: Guillaume d'Abbes, baron de Cabreroles , born March 21, 1718 in Bédarieux , † October 1, 1802 in Saint-Martin-d'Aumes ) was a French lawyer, author and encyclopaedist in the Time of enlightenment .

Live and act

He came from an Occitan family of judges, his father was Guillaume Abbes, sgr de Courbeson (* 1679), his mother Elisabeth de Valery, both married since 1717.

Guillaume d'Abbes de Cabrebolles married on February 11, 1741 in Béziers Marie Jeanne Aphrodise de Gineste; they had a daughter, Marie Claire Aphrodise d'Abbes de Cabrebolles. He was admitted to the bar, avocat , in 1741 and was a member of the Montpellier Court of Auditors from 1749 to 1789 , correcteur à la chambre des comptes de Montpellier .

He was a member of the Académie de Béziers . For the Encyclopédie of the Enlightenmentists Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert , he wrote an article on the term physiology .

Works (selection)

Relation des inondations arrivées à la ville de Bédarieux en 1745. Reprint (1838)
Voyage in the space. Londres, (1758)

Web links

Wikisource: Guillaume d'Abbes de Cabrerolles - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Abbes de Cabrebolles, Guillaume d '
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Guillaume d'Abbes, baron de Cabreroles; Guilhèm d'Abbés, baron de Cabreròla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French lawyer, man of letters and encyclopaedist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 21, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bédarieux
DATE OF DEATH	October 1, 1802
Place of death	Saint-Martin-d'Aumes

[1] According to other sources, he died in 1785.

[2] Family genealogy

[3] Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of dix-sept volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année 1989 Volume 7 Numéro 7 p. 126

[4] PATRIMOINE & CONNAISSANCE DE LA CIVILIZATION OCCITANE. Description of two Occitan texts by Guilhèm d'Abbés, baron de Cabreròla, online