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.
-- which were ε0 and μ0 ?--> He obtained a value which was very close to the speed of light, as recently measured directly by Hippolyte Fizeau.
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine | Hippolyte Taine | Hippolyte et Aricie | Hippolyte Bernheim | Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine | Hippolyte Lefèbvre | Hippolyte François Jaubert | Hippolyte Fizeau | Hippolyte Cloquet | Saint-Hippolyte, Haut-Rhin | Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort | Saint-Hippolyte | ''Phèdre et Hippolyte'' by Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guérin | Louis-Hippolyte Boileau | Hippolyte Roussel | Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès | Hippolyte Louis Gory | Hippolyte Havel | Hippolyte Girardot | Hippolyte d'Este | Hippolyte de la Charlerie, detail from ''The Members of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts | Hippolyte Bis | Hippolyte Annex | Hippolyte | François-Hippolyte Barthélémon | Étienne Laurent Joseph Hippolyte Boyer de Fonscolombe | Anne Joseph Hippolyte de Maurès, Comte de Malartic |