French mycologist (1740-1826).
Jean-Jacques Paulet (26 April 1740 – 4 August 1826) was a French mycologist. Paulet was born in Anduze, France and studied medicine in Montpellier, where he received his PhD in March 1764. He published in Paris in 1765 a book titled d’Histoire de la petite vérole, avec les moyens d’en préserver les enfants... (History of smallpox, with the means to protect children ...), which was followed by a French translation of the book on smallpox by Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi (ninth or tenth century). He completed this series of works by three more books, published in Paris between 1768 and