Jean-Baptiste Languet de Gergy

Funerary monument of Jean-Baptiste Languet de Gergy in Eglise Saint-Sulpice.
The monument to Jean-Baptiste Languet de Gergy.

Jean-Baptiste Languet de Gergy (1674–1750) was parish priest at Eglise Saint-Sulpice in Paris from 1714 to 1748. He was the initiator of the construction of the Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice.[1][2]