* 1660 – Hubert Gautier, French scientist and engineer ( d. 1737 )

Wind tunnels were key in the development and validation of the laws of aerodynamics. In 1889, Charles Renard, a French aeronautical engineer, became the first person to reasonably predict the power needed for sustained flight.

While two-piece bathing suits had been worn on the beach before, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946.

Bézier curves were widely publicized in 1962 by the French engineer Pierre Bézier, who used them to design automobile bodies.

* 1832 – Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect ( Eiffel tower ) ( d. 1923 )

French composer and engineer Edgard Varèse created a variety of compositions using electronic horns, whistles, and tape.

Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot ( September 11, 1845 – March 28, 1903 ), French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communication Baudot code, was one of the pioneers of telecommunications.

* 1799 – Émile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist ( d. 1864 )

* 1838 – Maurice Lévy, French engineer ( d. 1910 )

Alexandre Gustave Eiffel ( ) ( 15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923 ) was a French civil engineer and architect.

One significant innovation was the use of a fire-tube boiler, invented by French engineer Marc Seguin that gave improved heat exchange.

Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis or Gustave Coriolis (; 21 May 1792 – 19 September 1843 ) was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist.

In the mid-1700s, French engineer Bernard Forest de Bélidor published Architecture Hydraulique which described vertical-and horizontal-axis hydraulic machines.

* 1872 – Louis Blériot, French aviator, inventor, and engineer ( d. 1936 )

* 1935 – André Citroën, French industrialist, engineer, and businessman, founded the Citroën Company ( b. 1878 )

* 1714 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French engineer and writer ( d. 1800 )

* 1810 – Ferdinand Barbedienne, French engineer ( d. 1892 )

The two neighbors took the first ex-aequo prize of the Congress of Documentary Film in 1943, for the first French underwater film: Par dix-huit mètres de fond ( 18 meters deep ), made without breathing apparatus the previous year in the Embiez islands ( Var ) with Philippe Tailliez and Frédéric Dumas, using a depth-pressure-proof camera case developed by mechanical engineer Léon Vèche ( engineer of Arts and Métiers and the Naval College ).

During this period of French rule, the defences of the fortress were strengthened by the famous siege engineer Vauban.

A French map produced in 1712 ( currently in the Canadian Museum of Civilization ), created by military engineer Jean-Baptiste de Couagne, identified Lake Ontario as " Lac Frontenac ".

During this siege, Vauban, the famous French military engineer, developed a new strategy in order to break down the strong fortifications surrounding Maastricht.

French engineer Robert Darvel is dispatched to Mars by the psychic powers of Hindu Brahmins.

* 1800 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer ( b. 1714 )

* 1805 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer ( d. 1894 )

* October 2 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer ( b. 1725 )

* September 25 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer ( d. 1804 )

In 1787, French botanist Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville, sent to Mexico to steal the cochineal insect valued for its scarlet dye, reported the strangely beautiful flowers he had seen growing in a garden in Oaxaca.

However, the Conservatoire would not accept foreigners ; Nicolas-Joseph was obliged to seek French citizenship, which was granted in 1837.

It turned out that Franck did not know that when his father, Nicolas-Joseph, became a naturalized French citizen to enter his sons into the Conservatoire as students, they were counted as citizens only until age twenty-one, when they were obliged to declare their allegiance to France as adults.

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot ( 25 September 1725 – 2 October 1804 ) was a French inventor.

* Nicolas-Joseph de Noyelles de Fleurimont succeeded Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye as the Commandant of the western French forts.

Colonel Beaurepaire Nicolas-Joseph Beaurepaire ( 7 January 1740, Coulommiers, Seine-et-Marne – 2 September 1792 ) was a French officer.

* Le fardier de Cugnot: page in French about Cugnot and his invention, hosted at an Île-de-France regional government web site and credited to the Société des ingénieurs de l ' automobile ( Society of Automotive Engineers ).

* September 25-Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French mechanical engineer ( died 1804 )

I heard subsequently that my Uncle and Aunt had dinner in a nearby restaurant in the French Quarter after which he went home to get into his costume to keep the date.

French Egalitarianism had had only nominal influence in this country before the days of Popularism.

Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.

These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.

The waspish man stopped me three paces from the bicycle barricade, and asked me in French if I had papers to leave France.

Sure enough, mail began trickling in, delivered by a talkative, highly amused French postman who informed me there had been quite a debate at the post office as to whether that address would be recognized.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

The Artists contended that the Philistines, gross of soul, were all for having Son et Lumiere, since the French were footing the bill and the attraction, wherever it had been done, had proven popular.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

The French were now occupying Gascony and Flanders on the technical grounds that their rulers had forfeited them by a breach of the feudal contract.

We had walked it many times and shivered, figuring what a fish barrel it had been for the French.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

`` Oh, the French are a very curious people '', Pierre had laughed.

In the ballroom below, the dark had given way to moonlight coming in through the bank of French windows.

When Napoleon's ship had borne him to Elba, French wines had started to cross the Channel, the first shipments in a dozen war-ridden years, but the supplies had not yet reached rural hostelries where the sweet wines of the Spanish peninsula still ruled.

he rose at half-past six every morning, made himself some French coffee, had his corn flakes and more coffee, smoked four cigarettes while reading last Sunday's Herald Tribune and yesterday's Pittsburgh Gazette, then put on his high-topped farmer's shoes and walked under a vine bower to his workshop.

and, although he later explained that he was talking French, it seems rather more likely that he had succumbed to the joys of the evening.

There was even a cable in French from a bank in Switzerland that had somehow learned about the Dallas stock offering.

Everybody had heard of Van Gogh, the French impressionist.