11) Massillon, Jean Baptiste. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...French clergyman, bishop of Clermont from 1717. He was celebrated for his preaching, especially at the courts of Louis XIV and Louis XV. Collections of sermons include...
12) Oudry, Jean Baptiste. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Louis XV, recording the king's hunts in his paintings and tapestry designs. He was also director of the Beauvais and the Gobelin tapestry works. He is known for his...
13) Perrin, Jean Baptiste. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...From 1910 to 1940 he was professor at the Univ. of Paris, and in 1941 he came to the United States. Perrin specialized in the Brownian movement of particles. For...
14) Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de. The Columbia
Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...King Louis XV and had been promoted to lieutenant general by 1780, when King Louis XVI sent him, with some 6,000 regulars, to aid General Washington in the American...
15) Santerre, Jean Baptiste. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...French figure and portrait painter. He was known for allegorical portraits and his rococo use of nude figures. He founded a drawing academy for women at Versailles....
16) Say, Jean Baptiste. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Treatise on Political Economy (1803, tr. from the 4th ed. 1821) he effectively reorganized and popularized the theories of Adam Smith. Say also developed a noted...
17) Talon, Jean Baptiste. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...French administrative service c.1653. In his short tenure (1665-68, 1670-72) as intendant of New France he accomplished much. He encouraged agriculture, sent prospectors...
18) Tavernier, Jean Baptiste. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...French traveler in Asia. He undertook six voyages, which took him as far as the East Indies and Java, and he acquired a fortune in the trade of precious stones. Ennobled...
19) Villele, Jean Baptiste Seraphin Joseph, comte de. The Columbia
Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...French statesman and premier (1822-28). Elected (1815) a deputy after the Bourbon restoration, he became leader of the extreme royalists in the chamber of deputies....
20) Vincennes, Jean Baptiste Bissot, sieur de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth
Edition. 2001
...Canadian explorer and leader of the Miami, b. Quebec. He was sent to the Miami country by Frontenac (c.1696); he established a fort and trading post there and quickly...
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