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).[1]

Some publications

The standard author abbreviation Secondat is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

Books

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

Honors

Eponimous

• (Fagaceae) Quercus secondatii Steud.[3]

References

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