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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.
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert[ a] ( / ˌdæləmˈbɛər / DAL-əm-BAIR, [ 1] French: [ʒɑ̃ batist lə ʁɔ̃ dalɑ̃bɛʁ]; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie. [ 2]
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 ...
Defense of Paris. Louis-Nicolas d'Avout ( French pronunciation: [lwi nikɔla davu]; 10 May 1770 – 1 June 1823), better known as Davout, 1st Prince of Eckmühl, 1st Duke of Auerstaedt, was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
Frochot family tomb at the cimetière du Père-Lachaise. Nicolas Thérèse Benoît Frochot (20 March 1761 - 29 July 1828) was a senior French civil servant and conseiller d'État, as well as the first holder of the office of Prefect of the Seine .
Théodore[ 1] ( Nicolas) Gobley ( French: [ɡɔblɛ]; 11 May 1811, in Paris – 1 September 1876, in Bagnères-de-Luchon, was the first to isolate and ultimately determine the chemical structure of lecithin, the first identified and characterized member of the phospholipids class. He was also a pioneer researcher in the study and analysis of ...
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 ). His father was a lawyer in Nancy.
Andry was born in Lyon, and spent his early life preparing for the priesthood. [2] His early studies were widespread, however, and he published a book on the usage of the French language in 1692. [3] In his 30s he studied medicine at Reims and Paris, receiving his degree in 1697, and in 1701 he was appointed to the faculty of the Collège de ...