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Jean-Baptiste de Secondat baron de La Brède (12 February 1716 – 17 June 1796) was an 18th-century French naturalist botanist, and agronomist. He was the eldest son of Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Baron de La Brède (1689–1755) and Jeanne Catherine de Lartigue (1689–1770).

Some publications

The standard author abbreviation Secondat is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Books

• 1749: Considérations sur le commerce et la navigation de la Grande-Bretagne, by Joshua Gee, translated from English

Honors

Eponymous

• (Fagaceae) Quercus secondatii Steud.

References

1. Dates
2. International Plant Names Index.  Secondat.
3. Nomencl. Bot. 674. 1821 (IK)

External links

• Jean Baptiste de Secondat on data.bnf.fr
• Jean-Baptiste de Secondat de Montesquieu on IPNI
• Biography
• Éloges de Montesquieu par Jean-Baptiste de Secondat et D’Alembert
• Genealogy

• 18th-century French botanists
• French agronomists
• Montesquieu
• English–French translators
• 18th-century French historians
• 1716 births
• 1796 deaths