Scipion Abeille (died 9 December 1697) was a French surgeon and poet. Abeille was born at

Riez Riez (; Provençal: ''Riés'') is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. Geography The densely built village sits where two small rivers join—the Auvestre and the Colostre—in a glacially wide ...

in the

French province The Kingdom of France was organised into provinces until the National Constituent Assembly adopted a more uniform division into departments (''départements'') and districts in late 1789. The provinces continued to exist administratively until 21 ...

Provence Provence (, , , , ; oc, Provença or ''Prouvènço'' , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the France–Italy border, Italian border ...

, (now in

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Alpes-de-Haute-Provence or sometimes abbreviated as AHP (; oc, Aups d'Auta Provença; ) is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France, bordering Alpes-Maritimes and Italy to the east, Var to the south, Vaucluse to the wes ...

), and was the brother of

Gaspard Abeille Gaspard Abeille ( Riez, 1648 – Paris, 22 May 1718) was a French lyric and tragic poetry poet. He received the title of ''Abbé'' and in 1704 was elected a member of the Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; K ...

. Abeille's most famous work was ("Description of the Bones"), which was published in 1685. He also wrote , Paris, 1696.

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