BIRTH, VOULE, AND MIEITAKY CAREER 9 
esquire, who, by contract dated August 15, 1543, 
married Marguerite de Sacaze. He was the father of 
(111) Pierre de Monet, esquire, “Seigneur d’Ast, en 
Béarn, guidon des gendarmes de la compagnie du roi 
de Navarre.” From him descended (Iv) Etienne de 
Monet, esquire, second of the name, “ Seigneur d’Ast 
et Lamarque, de Julos.” He was a captain by rank, 
and bought the estate of Saint-Martin in 1592. He 
married, in 1612, Jeanne de Lamarque, daughter of 
William de Lamarck, “ Seigneur de Lamarque et de 
Bretaigne.”’ They had three children, the third of 
whom was Philippe, “ chevalier de Saint-Louis, com- 
mandant du chateau de Dinan, Seigneur de Bazen- 
tin, en Picardy,’’ who, as we have already seen, was 
the father of the naturalist Lamarck, who lived from 
1744 to 1829. The abbé relates that Philippe, the 
father of the naturalist, was born at Saint-Martin, in 
the midst of Bigorre, “22 plezne Bigorre,’ and he 
very neatly adds that “the Bigorrais have the right 
to claim for their land of flowers one of the glories 
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of botany.’* 
* The abbé attempts to answer the question as to what place gave 
origin to the name of Lamarck, and says: 
‘* The author of the history of Béarn considered the cradle of the 
race to have been the freehold of Marca, parish of Gou (Basses- 
Pyrénées). A branch of the family established in le Magnoac changed 
its name of Marca to that of La Marque.” It was M. d’Ossat who 
gave rise to this change by addressing his letters to M. de Marca (at 
the time when he was preceptor of his nephew), sometimes under the 
name of M. Marca, sometimes J/. la A7argua, or of AL. dela Marca, 
but more often still under that of AZ. de la Marque, ‘* with the object, 
no doubt, of making him a Frenchman” (‘‘ dans la wute sans doute de 
le franciser”). (Vite du Cardinal d’Ossat, tome i., p. 319.) 
“To recall their origin, the branch of Magnoac to-day write their 
name Margue-Marca. If the Marca of the historian belongs to 
Béarn, the Lamarque of the naturalist, an orthographic name in prin- 
ciple, proceeds from Bigorre, actually chosen (désignée) by Lamarcg, 
