Jacques Montet (9 March 1722 in Beaulieu near Le Vigan – 13 November 1782 in Montpellier) was an 18th-century French pharmacist, chemist and encyclopediste.
[2] Thanks to an Englishman, whom he accompanied on his trips to Switzerland, interest in the natural sciences was awakened in Montet, in particular for chemistry.
Montet continued his researches on various topics and also dealt with general natural history.
His work on physics, natural history and agriculture in a part of the Cevennes, were published in the Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences of Montpellier.
He eventually wrote three articles for the volumes XV and XVI of the Encyclopédie von Denis Diderot und Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Tartre, Tournesol and Vert-de-gris, ou Verdet In February 1769, he married Gillette Carchet fromp Montpellier but the couple remained childless.