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unusual facts about French Institute



Architonnerre

Leonardo's description was hidden amongst his papers until it was rediscovered by Étienne-Jean Delécluze of the French Institute in 1838 and published in the magazine L'Artiste in 1841, well after the modern high pressure steam engine had been independently invented.

La Ferté-sous-Jouarre memorial

The memorial was built on land given by Adrien Fizeau, former mayor of Jouarre, in memory of his father Hippolyte Fizeau (1819–1896), a member of the French Institute and a member of the Royal Society.

Louise Wallis

A French house music fan and francophile, Wallis has performed twice at the French Institute’s 12-hour extravaganza ‘My Night With Philosophers’.


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Edmond James de Rothschild

Edmond took little active part in banking but pursued artistic and philanthropic interests, helping to found scientific research institutions such as the Institut Henri Poincaré, the Institut de Biologie physico-chimique, the pre-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Casa Velázquez in Madrid, and the French Institute in London.

French Institute for Scotland

The French Institute is located in Randolph Crescent in Edinburgh's West End.

Julien Torma

Anyway, would the person be real, Torma has to be a pen name: according to the French institute for statistics INSEE, since 1891, only three Torma births have been recorded in France, all of them between 1941 and 1965 in the South-West.

Luca Coscioni

Afterwards, he began to collaborate with an influential French institute based in Nancy.