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Jacques Alexandre César Charles (12 November 1746 – 7 April 1823) was a French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist.Charles wrote almost nothing about mathematics, and most of what has been credited to him was due to mistaking him with another Jacques Charles (sometimes called Charles the Geometer [1]), also a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, entering on 12 May 1785.
Jacques Charles François Sturm (29 September 1803 – 15 December 1855) was a French mathematician, who made a significant addition to equation theory with his work, Sturm's theorem. [ 1 ] Early life
Jacques Charles de Fitz-James, 5th Duke of Fitz-James (16 November 1743 – 11 August 1805) was a French-born nobleman who was a grandson of James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, himself an illegitimate son of King James II and VII by Arabella Churchill, herself a sister of the 1st Duke of Marlborough [1] while his mother was a daughter of Charles Auguste de Goyon, Count of Gacé, Marshal of ...
Charles conceived the idea that hydrogen would be a suitable lifting agent for balloons because, as a chemist, he had studied the work of his contemporaries Henry Cavendish, Joseph Black and Tiberius Cavallo. [1] The balloon built by Jacques Charles and the Robert brothers is attacked by terrified villagers in Gonesse.
Children: 4: Jacques Charrier (born 6 November 1936) is a French actor, film producer, painter and ceramist. Biography.
Charles de Gaulle (1837–1880), specialist in Celtic languages and civilisation; Henri de Gaulle (1848–1932), private school teacher. x 1886 to Jeanne Maillot. Xavier de Gaulle (1887–1955), soldier, Resistance member, twice married, five children. Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz (1920–2002), president of the ATD Fourth World.
Jacques-Édouard Alexis (French pronunciation: [ʒak edwaʁ alɛksi]; born 21 September 1947) is a Haitian politician. He served as the prime minister of Haiti from 1999 to 2001 and was prime minister for a second term from 2006 to 2008 when he was dismissed due to political fallout from food riots .
Jacques Villeneuve OQ (French: [ʒɑk vilnœv]; born 9 April 1971) is a Canadian former racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1996 to 2006. Villeneuve won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1997 with Williams , and won 11 Grands Prix across 11 seasons.