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Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (French: [nikɔla lwi də lakaj]; 15 March 1713 – 21 March 1762), [3] formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer and geodesist who named 14 out of the 88 constellations.
Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers ( French for 'Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts'), [ 1] better known as Encyclopédie ( French: [ɑ̃siklɔpedi] ), was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions ...
Nicolas Liebault. Nicolas-Léopold Liébault (c. 1723 in Nancy – 1795) was an 18th-century French officer, writer and collaborator of the Encyclopédie by Diderot and D’Alembert. [1] He was the author of two articles former, dresser and fuite, providing the definition of certain military terms ( régiment de Royal Lorraine ).
Biography. Born at la Grave in Oisans, in the Dauphiné, he left France in 1542 to participate in the siege of Perpignan which was then held by Emperor Charles V of Austria. In 1547, he sailed to Scotland where his intervention ended the siege of St Andrews Castle. In 1548, he returned to Scotland to take away Mary, Queen of Scots from ...
The Encyclopedia of Yverdon (in French: Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines) is an encyclopedia compiled by Fortunato Bartolomeo de Félice and published in 58 volumes from 1770 through 1780 in Yverdon -les-Baines, Switzerland. The Encyclopedia of Yverdon is not as culturally French nor as ...
The corps was formed in 1805, with Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult being appointed as its commander. [ 1] The IV Corps formed part of the extended center of the French line at the Battle of Austerlitz in December 1805. [ 2] During the battle, Napoleon ordered Soult to attack the Pratzen Heights, from which the Allies had been attacking the French ...
Baron Siméon Denis Poisson FRS FRSE ( French: [si.me.ɔ̃ də.ni pwa.sɔ̃]; 21 June 1781 – 25 April 1840) was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, analytical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, elasticity, and fluid ...
2000. The Corps de l'armement, or corps des ingénieurs de l'armement [1] is a Technical Grand Corps of the French State ( grand corps de l'Etat ), [2] aimed at providing the French Armed Forces with all appropriate equipment and supervising the French Aerospace & Defence industry . The corps members are the ingénieurs de l'armement, or ...