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Chasles

American  
[shahl] / ʃɑl /

noun

  1. Michel 1793–1880, French mathematician.


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Fitzgerald mentions Chasles among French critics who accept the book.

From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer

Chasles, an accompanist, a maid, a hair-dresser, and myself.

From Interpreters by Carl Van Vechten

Writing at that early period, M. Chasles at once recognized, for instance, the peculiar quality of Emerson’s genius.

From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

We have frequently been interested by the clever contributions of M. Philarète Chasles to the Revue des Deux Mondes.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various

Among the other contributors are Philarete Chasles, an excellent classical scholar, and a man well acquainted with English literature; Cuvillier Fleury, unquestionably a man of taste and talent; and the celebrated Jules Janin.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

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