De la France, le style rococo s'est répandu dans les années 1730 vers les terres catholiques germanophones
Pierre-Émile Martin French engineer | Encyclopeadia Britannica
Ingénieur français qui a inventé le procédé Siemens-Martin, qui a produit la majeure partie de l'acier du monde jusqu'à l'arrivée des procédés à l'oxygène
Benoît Fourneyron French inventor | Encyclopeadia Britannica
Fourneyron’s turbine achieved immediate international success, powering industry in continental Europe and in the United States
Westminster Abbey church, London, United Kingdom | Encyclopeadia Britannica
The design and plan were strongly influenced by contemporary French cathedral architecture.
William Of Sens French architect | Encyclopeadia Britannica
French master-mason who built the first structure in the Early Gothic style in England
Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt, French scientist | Encyclopeadia Britannica
It is widely regarded as one of the great works of medieval experimental research and a precursor of modern scientific methodology.
Paul Bert French physiologist and politician | Encyclopeadia Britannica
French physiologist, politician, and diplomat, founder of modern aerospace medicine
Ambroise Paré French surgeon | Encyclopeadia Britannica
Regarded by some medical historians as the father of modern surgery.
France | Encyclopeadia Britannica
Historically and culturally among the most important nations in the Western world
Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin French magician | Britannica.com
French magician who is considered to be the father of modern conjuring.
Alexandre Yersin, French bacteriologist | Britannica.com
Swiss-born French bacteriologist and one of the discoverers of the bubonic plague bacillus, Pasteurella pestis, now called Yersinia pestis.
Dur Sharrukin ancient city, Iraq | Britannica.com
Excavations at the site (the first archaeological excavations in Mesopotamia) were begun by the French consul Paul-Émile Botta in 1843
Paul-Émile Botta French archaeologist | Encyclopædia Britannica
Discovery of the palace of the Assyrian king Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad), Iraq, in 1843
A.-H. Anquetil-Duperron French scholar and linguist | Britannica.com
Generally credited with supplying the first translation of the Avesta (Zoroastrian scripture) into a modern European language and with awakening interest in the study of Eastern languages and thought.
Benin | Encyclopeadia Britannica
As a political unit, Benin was created by the French colonial conquest at the end of the 19th century