Jean-Baptiste-François Gigot d'Orcy

Jean-Baptiste-François Gigot d’Orcy, ( January 8, 1737, Sens, - June 10, 1793, in Paris, ) was a French entomologist and mineralogist.

In 1788, he was a wealthy figure of the Ancien regime and receiver general of finances of the generality of Châlons-en-Champagne and lived in Paris at Place Vendôme in the parish of St-Roch.

He assembled an important natural history collection and library in his home on Place Vendôme.

A naturalist and patron, he had his rich collection described by Jacques-Louis-Florentin Engramelle and supported the publication of works by contemporary naturalists such as Guillaume-Antoine Olivier and Jean-Baptiste Audebert.

His name is honoured as Rutela dorcyi Olivier, 1789 Jean Gigot d'Orcy's associates Johann Eusebius Voet,Jacob Christian Schäffer, Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller.

Illustration from Audebert's Histoire des colibris, oiseaux-mouches, jacamars et promerops a work supported by Gigot d'Orcy finally published in 1802