Where was the person who headed up the 1795 Bureau des Longitudes born?
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Bureau des Longitudes The Bureau des Longitudes (] ) is a French scientific institution, founded by decree of 25 June 1795 and charged with the improvement of nautical navigation, standardisation of time-keeping, geodesy and astronomical observation. During the 19th century, it was responsible for synchronizing clocks across the world. It was headed during this time by François Arago and Henri Poincaré. The Bureau now functions as an academy and still meets monthly to discuss topics related to astronomy.
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François Arago Arago was born at Estagel, a small village of 3,000 near Perpignan, in the "département " of Pyrénées-Orientales, France, where his father held the position of Treasurer of the Mint.
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Louis Monmerqué Louis-Jean-Nicolas Monmerqué (6 December 1780 – 27 February 1860) was a 19th-century French magistrate and man of letters.
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Johann Heinrich Lambert Johann Heinrich Lambert (] , "Jean-Henri Lambert" in French; 26 August 1728 – 25 September 1777) was a Swiss polymath who made important contributions to the subjects of mathematics, physics (particularly optics), philosophy, astronomy and map projections.
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Louis-Charles-César Maupassant Louis-Charles-César Maupassant, born 25 April 1750 in Saumur, died 11 March 1793 in Machecoul, was a merchant, farmer and deputy to the French National Convention.
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Étienne-Louis Malus Étienne-Louis Malus (] ; 23 July 1775 – 24 February 1812) was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician.
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Sylvain Charles Valée Sylvain-Charles, comte Valée (17 December 1773 – 16 August 1846), born in Brienne-le-Château, was a Marshal of France.
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François Nicole François Nicole (December 23, 1683 – January 18, 1758) was a French mathematician, born in Paris and died there, who published his "Traité du calcul des différences finies" in 1717; it contains rules both for forming differences and for effecting the summation of given series. Besides this, in 1706 he wrote a work on roulettes, especially spherical epicycloids; and in 1729 and 1731 he published memoirs on Newton's essay on curves of the third degree.
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Charles Honoré Berthelot La Villeheurnois Charles Honoré Berthelot La Villeheurnois (c. 1750, Toulon - 10 July 1799, Sinnamary, Guyana) was a French politician.
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Louise du Pierry Louise du Pierry or Dupiery, née "Elisabeth Louise Felicité Pourra de la Madeleine" (30 July 1746 – 27 February 1807), was a French astronomer and professor.
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François Pouqueville François Charles Hugues Laurent Pouqueville (] ; 4 November 1770 – 20 December 1838) was a French diplomat, writer, explorer, physician and historian, member of the Institut de France.
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Victor Hugues Jean-Baptiste Victor Hugues sometimes spelled Hughes (born in Marseille July 20, 1762 and died in Cayenne August 12, 1826) was a French politician and colonial administrator during the French Revolution, who governed Guadeloupe from 1794 to 1798, emancipating the island's slaves under orders from the National Convention.
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Joseph Le Bon Joseph Le Bon (29 September 1765 – 10 October 1795) was a French politician.
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Aimar-Charles-Marie de Nicolaï Aimar-Charles-Marie Nicolaï (] ; 14 August 1747, Paris – 7 July 1794, Paris) was a French magistrate in the Ancien Régime of France. He was the first president of the Chambre des Comptes, and the seventh member elected to occupy seat 2 of the Académie française in 1788.
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Jean Baptiste Boisduval Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval (24 June 1799 – 30 December 1879) was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician.
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Pierre Bureau Pierre Bureau (October 9, 1771 – June 6, 1836) was a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada.
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Joseph Alexandre Jacques Durant de Mareuil Joseph Alexandre Jacques Durant de Mareuil (6 November 6, 1769 Paris -13 January 1855 Ay Marne) was a French career diplomat, who served as French Ambassador to the United States from 1824 to 1830.
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Daniel Jouanneau Daniel Jouanneau (born September 15, 1946) is a French diplomat.
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Nicolas Liebault Nicolas-Léopold Liébault (circa 1723, Nancy – 1795) was an 18th-century French officer, writer and collaborator of the "Encyclopédie" by Diderot and D’Alembert. He was the author of two articles "former", "dresser" and "fuite", providing the definition of certain military terms ("régiment de Royal Lorraine").
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Guillaume Le Gentil Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière (Coutances, 12 September 1725 – Paris, 22 October 1792) was a French astronomer.
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Gabriel de Luetz Gabriel de Luetz, Baron et Seigneur d'Aramon et de Vallabregues (died 1553), often also abbreviated to Gabriel d'Aramon, was the French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1546 to 1553, in the service first of Francis I, who dispatched him to the Ottoman Empire, and then of the French king Henry II. Gabriel de Luetz was accompanied by a vast suite of scientists, Jean de Monluc, philosopher Guillaume Postel, botanist Pierre Belon, naturalist Pierre Gilles d'Albi, the future cosmographer André Thévet, traveler Nicolas de Nicolay who would publish their findings upon their return to France and contribute greatly to the development of early science in France.
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Pierre Charles L'Enfant Pierre Charles L'Enfant (] ; August 2, 1754June 14, 1825), self-identified as Peter Charles L'Enfant while living in the United States, was a French-born American military engineer who designed the basic plan for Washington, D.C. (capital city of the U.S.) known today as the L'Enfant Plan (1791).