when buffon's son was seventeen years old his father arranged for the naturalist j-b lamarck to take him with him on his botanical studies through europe. however brilliance does not always lead to a desire to study and he turned into an unstable spendthrift.

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When Buffon's son was seventeen years old his father arranged for the naturalist J-B Lamarck to take him with him on his botanical studies through Europe. However brilliance does not always lead to a desire to study and he turned into an unstable spendthrift.