At an undetermined point in the cruise, L'Hermite would be joined by a larger squadron under Captain Jérôme Bonaparte, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's brother.
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A French fleet had departed Toulon in March 1805 under Vice-Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, gathered Spanish ships from the Spanish Mediterranean ports and then crossed the Atlantic, under orders to disrupt British trade in the region and seize British colonies.
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Sailing from Lorient in October 1805 with one ship of the line, two frigates and a corvette, Commodore Jean-Marthe-Adrien L'Hermite was under orders to intercept and destroy British traders and slave ships off the West African coast and await reinforcements under Jérôme Bonaparte which were to be used in the invasion and capture of one of the British trading forts for use as a permanent French naval base from which further raiding operations could be conducted.
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In a letter to Thomas Stieltjes in 1893, Hermite famously remarked: "I turn with terror and horror from this lamentable scourge of continuous functions with no derivatives."
Part I of this was a companion paper that dealt with Hermite-Gaussian Expansion and has received little use compared with the Fourier Transform method which has now become a standard tool at United Technologies Corporation (SOQ), Lockheed Martin (LMWOC), SAIC (ACS), Boeing (OSSIM), tOSC, MZA (Wave Train), and OPCI.
He took his pseudonym from Tristan l'Hermite, a shadowy figure of the late Middle Ages who was provost of the marshals of the King's household under Louis XI of France.
L'Hermite was born to the family of a counselor to the Bailiwick and Présidial of Cotentin.
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L'Hermite then set out for a three-moth patrol in the Chinese seas with Preneuse and Brûle-Gueule, under Don Álava.
François Tristan l'Hermite, a French dramatist who wrote under the name Tristan l'Hermite
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Tristan l'Hermite, a French political and military figure of the late Middle Ages
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Jacques l'Hermite, a Dutch merchant, explorer and admiral of the 17th century
It is not known why Lamellerie fled from such an inferior force and allowed one of his ships to be captured without opposition: modern historian Richard Woodman describes his conduct as "astonishing, given the weakness of the opposition and the strength of his own combined force", but in a separate work suggests that Lamellerie's orders precluded any engagement until his force was safely off the coast.
In 1945 she simplified Hermite's elementary proof of the irrationality of π.