Guillaume d'Abbes de Cabrerolles explained

Guillaume d’Abbes, baron de Cabrerolles (21 March 1718, Bédarieux – 1 October 1802,^[1] Saint-Martin-d’Aumes) was an 18th-century French lawyer, and Encyclopédiste^[2] during the Age of Enlightenment.

Biography

Abbes came from an Occitan family of judges.^[3] His father was Guillaume Abbes, seigneur de Courbeson (born 1679), his mother Elisabeth de Valery, married since 1717.

On 11 February 1741, Guillaume d’Abbes de Cabrebolles married Marie Jeanne Aphrodise de Gineste in Béziers with whom he had a daughter, Marie Claire Aphrodise d’Abbes de Cabrerolles. Admitted to the bar in 1741, he practised in this capacity from 1749 to 1789 and worked as correcteur à la chambre des comptes de Montpellier.

Abbes de Cabrebolles was a member of the . He wrote the article Physiologie for the Encyclopédie by Diderot and d’Alembert.

Works (selection)

• 1745: Relation des inondations arrivées à la ville de Bédarieux en 1745. Reprint (1838)
• 1758: Voyage dans les espaces imaginaires. London,

External links

• Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs des dix-sept volumes de « discours » de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, year 1989, Volume 7, issue 7, (p. 126), on Persée.
• Abbes de Cabrerolles on Wikisource

Notes and References

1. Other sources indicate he died in 1785.
2. http://gw3.geneanet.org/pierfit?lang=fr&p=guillaume&n=abbes Genealogy
3. Web site: PATRIMOINE & CONNAISSANCE DE LA CIVILISATION OCCITANE. Beschreibung zweier okzitanischen Texte von Guilhèm d'Abbés, baron de Cabreròla, online . 2016-08-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160120112938/http://www.occitanica.eu/omeka/items/show/575 . 2016-01-20 . live .