Chasles

[ shahl ]

/ ʃɑl /

Mi·chel

[mee-shel], /miˈʃɛl/, 1793–1880, French mathematician.

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At last other learned men, who did not love Chasles, tried to make him understand that he had been befooled.
Lectures on the French Revolution|John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
His son, mile Chasles (b. 1827), was a philologist of some reputation.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8|Various
It is a vile term—that of Anglo-American—a pedantic term—and rather surprising from the pen of Chasles.
The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851|Various
Chasles, Philarte: Galilei, sa vie, son procs et ses contemporains.
The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe|Dorothy Stimson

In those days there was a famous mathematician whose name was Chasles.
Lectures on the French Revolution|John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton