His wife was a lady of the family of De la Rive. The last twenty five years of his life he spent quietly in the country, at Genthod, near Geneva, where he died after a long and painful illness on. Bonnet seems never to have left the Geneva region, and does not appear to have taken any part in public affairs except for the period between 17, during which he was a member of the council of the republic. His schoolmates troubled him due to the hearing handicap and the parents took him out and had a private tutor. At age seven he lost hearing which pushed him into an interest in the natural world. Although originally from France, the family had been driven into Geneva by religious persecution of Protestants in the 16th century. Bonnet was born in Geneva, the son of Pierre Bonnet and Anne-Marie Lullin de Châteauvieux.
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