Jean-Baptiste Godart was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

  entomologist.

Born at Origny

Origny

Origny is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France.-Population:-References:*...

, Godart became impassioned by butterflies in his youth. He was charged by Pierre André Latreille

Pierre André Latreille

Pierre André Latreille was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest before the French Revolution, Latreille was imprisoned, and only regained his freedom after recognising a rare species he found in the prison, Necrobia ruficollis...

 (1762-1833) with writing the article on these insects in the Encyclopédie Méthodique

Encyclopédie Méthodique

The Encyclopédie méthodique par ordre des matières is a roughly 210 to 216 volumes encyclopedia that was published between 1782 and 1832 by the French publisher Charles Joseph Panckoucke, his son-in-law Henri Agasse, and the latter´s wife, Thérèse-Charlotte Agasse...

. Godart then undertook his Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères ou papillons de France publication starting in 1821 and not completed until completed 1842. In addition to the fauna of France, it also covered exotic diurnal species.

Source

Jean Lhoste (1987), Les Entomologiste français, 1750-1950, INRA-OPIE.
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