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de l’artillerie de France demeurante au chateau de 
Guillemont, qui ont signé avec mon dit sieur de Ba- 
zentin et nous. 
Ont signé: De Fossé, De Bucy Michelet, Bazentin. 
Cozette, curé. 
Of Lamarck’s parentage and ancestry there are 
fortunately some traces. In the Regzstre aux Actes 
de Baptéme pour l’ Année 1702, still preserved in the 
mairie of Bazentin-le-Petit, the record shows that his 
father was born in February, 1702, at Bazentin. The 
infant was baptised February 16, 1702, the permis- 
sion to the curé by Henry, Bishop of Amiens, having 
been signed February 3, 1702. Lamarck’s grand- 
parents were, according to this certificate of baptism, 
Messire Philippe de Monet de Lamarck, Ecuyer, 
Seigneur des Bazentin, and Dame Magdeleine de 
Lyonne. 
The family of Lamarck, as stated by H. Masson,* 
notwithstanding his northern and almost Germanic 
name of Chevalier de Lamarck, originated in the 
southwest of France. Though born at Bazentin, in 
old Picardy, it is not less true that he descended on 
the paternal side from an ancient house of Béarn, 
whose patrimony was very modest. This house was 
that of Monet. 
Another genealogist, Baron C. de Cauna,t tells us 
that there is no doubt that the family of Monet in 
Bigorret was divided. One of its representatives 
**<*Sur la maison de Viella—les Mortiers-brévise et les Montalembert 
en Gascogne—et sur le naturaliste Lamarck.”” Par Hippolyte Masson, 
(Revue de Gascogne, xvii., pp. 141-143, 1876.) 
+ [éid., p. 194. 
$A small town in southwestern France, near Lourdes and Pau; it 
is about eight miles north of Tarbes, in Gascony. 
