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ANTOINE JEAN BAPTISTE ROBERT AUGET, Baron de Mentyon, economist and philanthropist, was born at Paris on Dec. 23, 1733, and he died there of Dec. 29 1820, at the age of eighty-seven years. In that city his name is held in honouned remembrance for his public work and enlightened beneficence. Whilst domiciled in England—for reasons which are given below—de Montyon was, on Nov. 5, 1812, elected into the Royal Society of London. Soon after, he signed the charter book and was formally admitted.
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JAMES, T. Baron de Montyon, F.R.S. (1733–1820), and the Paris Academy of Sciences. Nature 120, 960–961 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120960a0
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