1662
Jean-Paul Bignon, French priest and man of letters (died 1743)
Jean-Paul Bignon, French priest and man of letters (died 1743)
Jean-Paul Bignon, French priest and man of letters (died 1743)
Jean-Paul Bignon
French ecclesiastic, statesman, writer, preacher and librarian to Louis XIV of France
- Born
- 1662
The Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon, Cong.Orat. was a French ecclesiastic, statesman, writer and preacher and librarian to King Louis XIV. His protégé, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, named the genus Bignonia after him in 1694.