Francois Chicoyneau
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François Chicoyneau (23 April 1672– 13 April 1752) was a French doctor, court physician, and chancellor of the University of Montpellier. Chicoyneau was the First Physician to King Louis XV.[1] He is especially known for investigating and writing about the Great Plague of Marseille.[2][3][4]
Family
[edit]Chicoyneau was born in Montpellier in 1672.[5] He came from the Nobility of the Robe.
François Chicoyneau's father, Michel Chicoyneau, also a physician, was born in Blois in 1626, the son of Michel Chicoyneau, elected in the election of Blois, and Marie Richier de Belleval, of Picardy origin. The couple were married in Blois in 1624. The Chicoyneaus were bourgeois from Blois who, from the condition of draper merchants, rose to the offices of notary and tax collector.[6] In 1652, François Chicoyneau's father joined his cousin Martin Richer de Belleval, who practiced medicine, in Montpellier. He succeeded him, in 1664, as intendant of the Royal Garden. In 1678, he became a counsellor in the court of accounts, aid and finance of Montpellier, a charge which conferred on him nobility.[7]
François Chicoyneau's mother, Catherine de Pichot, was the daughter of Balthasar Pichot, king's adviser in the court of accounts, aid and finance of Montpellier, and of Catherine de Pourtalès. In addition to François, Michel Chicoyneau and Catherine de Pichot had two other children:[8]
- Michel Aimé (1670 6 - 1691 7 );
- Gaspard (1673 8 - 1693 9 ), accidentally drowned in the Lez while botanizing;[9]
Career
[edit]A physician and faculty member of the University of Montpelier, he and two colleagues were dispatched to investigate the epidemic and confirm that it was indeed bubonic plague.[10] He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences.[9]
He died in Versailles on 13 April 1752 (at age 79).
References
[edit]- ^ Takeda, Junko (2011-05-01). Between Crown & Commerce: Marseille and the Early Modern Mediterranean. JHU Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-0112-6.
- ^ "Marseilles Case Study". Edward Worth Library. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
- ^ Signoli, Michel (2022-09-01). "History of the plague of 1720-1722, in Marseille". La Presse Médicale. History of modern pandemics. 51 (3): 104138. doi:10.1016/j.lpm.2022.104138. ISSN 0755-4982. PMID 36116732.
- ^ "A succinct account of the plague at Marseilles. Its symptoms and the methods and medicines used for curing it / ... by M. Chicoyneau ... Translated from the French by a physician". Wellcome Collection. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
- ^ Magny, vicomte Ludovic de (1866). Le nobiliaire universel: ou, Recueil général des généalogies historiques et veridiques des maisons nobles de l'Europe (in French). Institut Heraldique.
- ^ "Résultats de recherche — Medica — BIU Santé, Paris". www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ "Résultats de recherche — Medica — BIU Santé, Paris". www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ Biographie, Deutsche. "Chicoyneau, François - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ a b "Les membres du passé dont le nom commence par C | Liste des membres depuis la création de l'Académie des sciences | Membres | Nous connaître". www.academie-sciences.fr. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ Vidoni, Nicolas (26 March 2024). "The Public's Role in Vigilance against Plague and Political Authority in early Eighteenth-Century France". HAL Open Science.