Jean-Joseph Menuret Explained

Birth Date:23 January 1739
Death Place:Paris
Occupation:Physician
Encyclopédiste
Spouse:
  • Louise Cartier de Boismartin
  • Marie-Elisabeth Monneron

Jean-Joseph[1] Menuret, called Menuret de Chambaud[2] (23 January 1739 – 15 December 1815) was a French physician and author of a number of medical treatises. He also contributed to the Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert.

Biography

Menuret studied medicine at the University of Montpellier with Antoine Fizes. Returned to practise in Montelimar after he obtained his doctorate, he published a number of books and nearly 80 articles in the Encyclopedia by Diderot.

He then went to Paris and became physician of the king's stables and doctor of the Countess of Artois.

He became an émigré at the Revolution and settled in Hamburg. He returned to Paris after the Coup of 18 Brumaire.

Family

Menuret's first marriage with Louise Cartier de Bois Martin from Valence remained childless. After Cartier died in 1773, Menuret married Marie-Elisabeth Monneron (born 1745),[3] daughter of Antoine Claude Monneron (1703–1791),[4] a tax farmer of Annonay, Ardèche and Augustin Monneron's sister. They had one son, André Menuret – who remained single – and two daughters, Joséphine Menuret and Alexandre Menuret.

Works

Articles in the Encyclopédie (selection)

Sources

External links

Notes and References

  1. And not Jean-Jacques as long thought, including the catalog of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, by the abbreviation JJ (see Registry of births of Montelimar).
  2. "Driven by a small move of vanity or by a no less ridiculous than general custom, Menuret had been weak enough to extend his surname believing to illustrate it: Dr. calling himself Mr. Menuret of Chambaud." Journal des Sciences médicales (March 1816)
  3. http://gw5.geneanet.org/samlap?lang=fr;p=marie+elisabeth;n=monneron Genealogie von Marie-Elisabeth Monneron
  4. http://gw5.geneanet.org/samlap?lang=fr&p=antoine&n=monneron&oc=2 Genealogie vom Vater Antoine Claude Monneron