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Medal bearing the image of Claude Bourgelat by Alexis Joseph Depaulis. Claude Bourgelat (27 March 1712 – 3 January 1779) was a French veterinary surgeon.He was a founder of scientifically informed veterinary medicine, and he created the world's first two veterinary schools for professional training.
The Encyclopédistes (French: [ɑ̃siklɔpedist]) (also known in British English as Encyclopaedists, [1] or in U.S. English as Encyclopedists) were members of the Société des gens de lettres, a French writers' society, who contributed to the development of the Encyclopédie from June 1751 to December 1765 under the editors Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and only Diderot from 1765 ...
The National veterinary school of Alfort (French: École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort or ENVA) is a French public institution of scientific research and higher education in veterinary medicine, located in Maisons-Alfort, Val-de-Marne, close to Paris. It is operated under the supervision of the ministry of Agriculture.
1779 – Claude Bourgelat, French surgeon and lawyer (b. 1712) 1785 – Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (b. 1706) [264] 1795 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, founded the Wedgwood Company (b. 1730) [265] 1826 – Louis-Gabriel Suchet, French general (b. 1770) 1871 – Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Indian priest and saint (b. 1805) [266]
Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (French for 'Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts'), [1] better known as Encyclopédie (French: [ɑ̃siklɔpedi]), was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations.
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27 March – Claude Bourgelat, veterinary surgeon (died 1779) 8 April – Pierre Pouchot, military engineer officer (died 1769) 17 May – Jean-Baptiste Greppo, canon and archaeologist (died 1767) 28 May – Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, economist (died 1759) 21 June – Luc Urbain de Bouëxic, comte de Guichen, admiral (died 1790)
20 June – In Paris, the Comédie-Italienne, having merged with the Opéra-Comique, performs at the Hôtel de Bourgogne [4] 13 November – Treaty of Fontainebleau: Louis XV secretly cedes Louisiana (New France) to Charles III of Spain; Courses begin at the first veterinary school, established by Claude Bourgelat in Lyon; The Sorbonne library ...