Fitzgerald mentions Chasles among French critics who accept the book.
Chasles, Philarte, his disparaging lecture on American literature, 134.
His son, mile Chasles (b. 1827), was a philologist of some reputation.
In those days there was a famous mathematician whose name was Chasles.
At last other learned men, who did not love Chasles, tried to make him understand that he had been befooled.
It is a vile term—that of Anglo-American—a pedantic term—and rather surprising from the pen of Chasles.
Chasles, Philarte: Galilei, sa vie, son procs et ses contemporains.
