Pierre Bourdelot

Bourdelot studied at the Sorbonne (1629) and travelled in 1634 to Rome in the company of count François de Noailles.

[1] In 1638 he came back to France and was appointed as the private doctor of the Condé family.

[2] In 1640 he founded the Académie Bourdelot, a circle for scientists, philosophers and authors, that came together twice a month.

Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie and Christina's mother Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg were shocked by his behavior and Bourdelot returned to France in 1653 with many presents.

Bourdelot was friends with Jacques Stella, Gabriel Naudé, and Nicolas Poussin.

Text from "Septieme Lettre a Monsieur L'abbe Bourdelot, Seignor de Conde et S. Leger, a Chantilly. Touchant l'embrazement du Mont-Etna (Letter concerning an eruption of Mount Etna)" by Paolo Boccone published in ( Recherches et observations naturelles de Monsieur Boccone