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    as an engineer in the French Army, from which he graduated as capitaine du génie. In the early 1860s he became an instructor in geodesy at the well-reputed...
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    entrance exams. It was at this point when he entered the École royale du génie de Mézières, appointed as a second lieutenant. Studies at the Mézières...
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    Académie Française to meet on the ground floor of the Pavillon du Roi, in the Guards' Room of the former Queen Mother's apartment. Soon the Académie moved...
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  • Jean-Pierre Babelon (category Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
    Renaissance (1989) "La Notion de patrimoine" (1995) François Mansart. Le Génie de l’architecture (1998) Les Fresques de Tiepolo (1998) Chantilly (1999)...
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    François-René de Chateaubriand (category Members of the Académie Française)
    large numbers of intellectuals turned against the Church, he authored the Génie du christianisme in defense of the Catholic faith. His works include the autobiography...
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    Yves-Marie Allain, Françoise-Hélène Jourda, Lucile Allorge, Les serres : le génie architectural au service des plantes. Arles : Actes Sud, 2013. Régine Rosenthal...
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    Jean le Rond d'Alembert (category Members of the Académie Française)
    Paris: rue Dauphine, chez Claude-Antoine Jombert, fils ainé, libraire du Roi pour le Génie & l'Artillerie. 1777. Mélanges de littérature, de philosophie et...
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    study art and became a pupil of Pierre Dulin, Nicolas Lancret and Nicolas de Largillierre at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris....
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    de Fourcroy was born in Paris on 19 January 1715. He entered the Corps du Génie in 1735 or 1737, became a member in 1740 and then captain in 1744. He became...
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  • Jean Guitton (category Members of the Académie Française)
    the Académie française. From 1955 to 1968 he continued his works as a professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne. He became a member of the Académie française...
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