Le saint-simonisme est un mouvement socio-économique aux aspirations religieuses qui s’est développé et a connu son moment de gloire dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle.
Turgot and Enlightened Progress | Online Library of Liberty
The continuing significance of Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727–1781) is both as a founder of modern economic science and as a powerful shaper of the Enlightenment idea of progress
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux French theologian and reformer (1090-1153) | 1902 Encyclopedia
ST. BERNARD, one of the most illustrious Christian teachers and representatives of monasticism in the Middle Ages
Peter Abelard | 1902 Encyclopedia
Great as was the influence exerted by Abelard on the minds of his contemporaries and the course of mediaeval thought
Alfred Binet (July 8, 1857 – October 18, 1911)
Alfred Binet (July 8, 1857 – October 18, 1911) was a French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test
Locard, Edmond
In 1912, the laboratory was officially recognized by the Lyon police. Locard then headed the first official police crime laboratory in the world. This laboratory received world recognition and many great criminalists obtained their knowledge and experience under the guidance of Locard in the years that followed.
ANQUETIL-DUPERRON
Anquetil was nonetheless the first to bring a manuscript of an ancient oriental sacred text other than the Bible to the attention of European scholars.
How Languages Influence Each Other (in « An introduction to the study of speech », Edward Sapir 1921) | Bartleby
Chinese has flooded the vocabularies of Corean, Japanese, and Annamite for centuries, but has received nothing in return. In the western Europe of medieval and modern times French has exercised a similar, though probably a less overwhelming, influence
FRENCH LITERATURE IN PERSIA | Encyclopædia Iranica
In the last two centuries, French literature has had a significant impact on modern Persian literature
Tellier, Charles Chimiste (1828 – 1913), éternel curieux, inventeur malchanceux
L’innovation de Tellier fait grand bruit en Europe où la compétition fait rage sur les modes de conservation hygiénique des denrées.
The Father of Modern Refrideration | Jstor
At the Paris Congress the name of Edmond Carre was spoken with due reverence as the inventor of the first ice—making machine that was a commercial success
Carré Ferdinand & Edmond Ingénieurs | L’encyclopédie Picarde
Les frères Carré ont dominé le marché international du froid durant trente ans à la fin du XIXè siècle avec leur « machine à absorption au gaz d’ammoniac » qui fournit de la glace en continu.
Statue de Richard Cœur de Lion | Wikipédia
Face au Parlement de Londres, inscription en français sur le piédestal de la statue de Richard Cœur de Lion
John Calvin | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
Undoubtedly the greatest of Protestant divines, and perhaps, after St. Augustine, the most perseveringly followed by his disciples of any Western writer on theology
