Pierre-Antoine Mougin

Pierre-Antoine Mougin , (born in 1735) with Charquemont, Doubs, and died in 1816, with Grand' Combe-of-Wood, Doubs was an astronomer.

While being priest with Grand' Combe-of-Wood, he devotes himself to astronomy and becomes one of the correspondents of Lalande member of the Academy of Science.

Biography

He made his studies with the college of the Jesuits of Besancon until July 1753.

He is named vicar in 1761 with Grand' Combe-of-Wood, then is named vicar as a chief one year later (with died of the Bouhélier abbot).

He corresponds since 1766 with Joseph Jerome Lefrançois de Lalande and sends its observations and its calculations to him. This one provides him in return a large telescope and various instruments necessary to its observations since Grand' Combe-of-Wood. Its observations are carried out since its presbytery. On the last floor of this large house, it built its small observatory in a part giving on small a bacon out of wooden. The eclipse of the sun of January 19th, 1787, which one had not been able to see in Paris, was observed by the Mougin abbot since his presbytery.

In 1790, he is elected Député of Doubs but refused this station. He of hiding towards the end of the year 1793 but took again his observations in 1798. He continued to send his results to Lalande.

August 7th, 1814, two years before its death, it obtained, for the first time, an honorary distinction: Louis XVIII decorated it with the Fleur of lily.

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