Charles-Benjamin de Langes de Montmirail, baron de Lubières, was a Genevan mathematician born in Berlin in 1714 who died on 1 June 1790. His father, François, left the Principality of Orange in 1703 and fled first to Geneva and then to Berlin, and Charles-Benjamin became a citizen of Geneva in 1732. He later served as governor of Neuchâtel and, from 1752, sat on the Council of Two Hundred of the Republic of Geneva. He married Olympe Camp in Geneva in 1764. Lubières wrote a eulogy of the mathematician Gabriel Cramer, an account of a journey to Italy and extracts from works by Charles Bonnet, and he contributed the articles Probabilité, Idée and Induction to Diderot's Encyclopédie. He belonged to the Société des Gens de Lettres de Genève alongside Cramer, Jean-Louis Calandrini and the attorney general Jean-Robert Tronchin.
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