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Born May 3, 1695 • France • (Birthday in 4 days)
Died December 27, 1771 (aged 76) • France

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Saint-Clément Aqueduct
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Jean-Charles de Borda
French naval officer and physicist
William George Armstrong, c. 1870
William George Armstrong, Baron Armstrong
British engineer
James Bicheno Francis
James Bicheno Francis
British-American engineer
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Auguste Lumière
French inventor
Louis Lumière
French inventor
Barthélemy Thimonnier
French inventor
Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
French aviator
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
French aviator
Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter
François-Ambroise Didot
French printer and typesetter
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
French military engineer
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
René Laënnec
French physician
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Fresnel, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a contemporary portrait, 1825
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
French physicist
Charles Cros
French inventor and poet