César-François de Saussure (1705–1783) by Joseph Lander, 1758 Musée Historique de Lausanne
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Vivienne Larminie
Saussure, César-François [César] de (1705–1783), travel writer, was baptized in Lausanne, Pays de Vaud, Switzerland, on 24 June 1705, the eldest of the three sons and two daughters of François-Louis de Saussure (bap. 1676, d. 1724), minister of the Reformed church, and his wife, ...