Benoît de Maillet was a well-travelled French diplomat and natural historian. He was French consul general at Cairo, and overseer in the Levant. He formulated an evolutionary hypothesis to explain the origin of the Earth and its contents. Wikipedia
Born: April 12, 1656, Saint-Mihiel, France
Died: January 30, 1738 (age 81 years), Marseille, France
Nationality: French
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