Jean-Baptiste-François Gigot d’Orcy, ( January 8, 1737, Sens, - June 10, 1793, in Paris, ) was a French entomologist and . mineralogist.
In 1788, he was a wealthy figure of the Ancien regime and receiver general of finances of the generality of Châlons-en-Champagne and lived in Paris at Place Vendôme in the parish of St-Roch. He was married to Madeleine Marie Anne Delamonnoie. He assembled an important natural history collection and library in his home on Place Vendôme. A naturalist and patron, he had his rich collection described by Jacques-Louis-Florentin Engramelle and supported the publication of works by contemporary naturalists such as Guillaume-Antoine Olivier and Jean-Baptiste Audebert. He was executed during the Terror.His mineral collection was purchased by George Gibbs.Other parts of the collection were acquired by the Boissier family in Geneva.
References
- Groll, E. K. (2017). Biographies of the Entomologists of the World. Online database, version 8. Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg
- Wendell E. Wilson, 1994 Jean Gigot d'Orcy (1733-1793) The Mineralogical Record (Vol. 25, Issue 6)