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Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon Comte de



Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707–88), French naturalist who was the first modern taxonomist of the animal kingdom. He led the team that produced the 44-volume Histoire Naturelle (1749–1804).

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