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Chasles

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[shahl] / ʃɑl /

noun

  1. Michel 1793–1880, French mathematician.


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If the female operatives of Lowell read the work of M. Philarète Chasles, they will find there an encouragement to cultivate the smiling thoughts of poetry.

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

But since a French critic, M. Philarète Chasles, has made the same accusation, we must pause and consider it.

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham

M. Chasles thinks that to remember the glorious dead of the south is to engender contempt for the living.

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

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

The Etudes of M. Chasles are not of that superficial character adopted by many.

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

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