Chasles
[shahl]
- Mi·chel [mee-shel] /miˈʃɛl/, 1793–1880, French mathematician.
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Fitzgerald mentions Chasles among French critics who accept the book.
Laurence Sterne in GermanyHarvey Waterman Thayer
Chasles, Philarte, his disparaging lecture on American literature, 134.
Reminiscences, 1819-1899Julia Ward Howe.
His son, mile Chasles (b. 1827), was a philologist of some reputation.
In those days there was a famous mathematician whose name was Chasles.
Lectures on the French RevolutionJohn Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
At last other learned men, who did not love Chasles, tried to make him understand that he had been befooled.
Lectures on the French RevolutionJohn Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton