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Charles Marie de La Condamine, seven months later, was able to give to the Académie française an account of Father Roman's voyage, and thus confirm the existence of this waterway, first reported by Father Acuña in 1639.
* 1774 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer ( b. 1701 )
Based at two barracks ( one in La Condamine and one in Fontvieille ) the Corps is equipped with fire engines, rescue vehicles, and a range of specialist vehicles including a fire boat, and sealed tracked vehicles for entering Monaco's railway tunnels during an emergency.
Just downriver from this, the mountains close in on either side of the Marañón, forming narrow gorges or pongos for a length of, where, besides numerous whirlpools, there are no less than 35 rapids, the series concluding with three cataracts just before reaching the river Imasa or Chunchunga, near the mouth of which Charles Marie de La Condamine embarked in the 18th century to descend the Amazon.
The form of quinine most effective in treating malaria was found by Charles Marie de La Condamine in 1737.
* February 4 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer ( b. 1701 )
* Charles Marie de La Condamine, with François Fresneau Gataudière, makes the first scientific observations of rubber, in Ecuador.
Charles Marie de La Condamine is credited with introducing samples of rubber to the Académie Royale des Sciences of France in 1736.
* January 28 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer ( d. 1774 )
* Most of La Condamine
In 1744, La Condamine, in charge of the expedition sent to Peru in 1735 to determine the length of a degree of the meridian arc in the neighbourhood of the equator, passed by and gave his name to one of the mountains behind Kourou.
In 1738, Sur l ' arbre du quinquina, a paper written by Charles Marie de La Condamine, a member of the expedition that was sent to Peru to determine the length of a degree of the meridian arc in the neighbourhood of the equator, was published by the French Academy of Sciences.
In 1742, on the basis of a specimen received from La Condamine, Linnaeus named the tree Quinquina condaminiae and established a new genus, which he termed Cinchona quinquina condaminiae.
From west to east they are: Fontvieille ( the newest ), Monaco-Ville ( the oldest ), La Condamine, and Monte Carlo.
The initial casino was opened in La Condamine in 1862, but was not a success ; its present location in the area called " Les Spelugues " ( The Caves ) of Monte Carlo, came only after several relocations in the years that followed.
Panorama of La Condamine and Monte Carlo from the lookout near the Prince's Palace of Monaco in Monaco-Ville.
Among the regulars in attendance at the salon — the coterie holbachique — were the following: Diderot, Grimm, Condillac, Condorcet, D ' Alembert, Marmontel, Turgot, La Condamine, Raynal, Helvétius, Galiani, Morellet, Naigeon and, for a time, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Another French scientist in Peru at this time was Charles Marie de La Condamine.
* Pierre Bouguer publishes La figure de la terre in Paris, describing some of the results of his work with Charles Marie de La Condamine on the French Geodesic Mission to Peru ( begun in 1735 ) to measure a degree of the meridian arc near the equator.
The Condamine was named by Allan Cunningham in 1827 for T. De La Condamine, aide-de-camp to Governor Ralph Darling.
* February 4-Charles Marie de La Condamine, French geographer ( born 1701 )
In 1735 Bouguer sailed with Charles Marie de La Condamine on a scientific mission to Peru, in order to measure a degree of the meridian arc near the equator.
Charles-Marie de La Condamine

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La Peste ) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of medical workers finding solidarity in their labour as the Algerian city of Oran is swept by a plague.
Analytic geometry has traditionally been attributed to René Descartes Descartes made significant progress with the methods in an essay entitled La Geometrie ( Geometry ), one of the three accompanying essays ( appendices ) published in 1637 together with his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Directing One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, commonly referred to as Discourse on Method.
) Salieri soon produced one of his greatest works with the text by Casti La grotta di Trofonio ( The Cave of Trofonius ) in 1785, the first opera buffa published in full score by Artaria.
In 1986 Francine Lancelot's catalogue raisonné of baroque dance, entitled " La Belle Dance " was published.
The first notable virtuoso player was Jean-Baptiste Arban, who studied the cornet extensively and published La grande méthode complète de cornet à piston et de saxhorn, commonly referred to as the Arban method, in 1864.
The professor called his works " studies with the help of the cinematograph ," and published the results, along with several consecutive frames, in issues of " La Semaine Médicale " magazine from Paris, between 1899 and 1902.
* La Religieuse, Roman ( 1760 ; revised in 1770 and in the early 1780s ; the novel was first published as a volume posthumously in 1796 ).
About September, however, a spurious Part Two, entitled Second Volume of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha: by the Licenciado ( doctorate ) Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, of Tordesillas, was published in Tarragona by an unidentified Aragonese who was an admirer of Lope de Vega, rival of Cervantes.
** La Fin de Satan by Victor Hugo ( written between 1855 and 1860, published in 1886 )
In its first years Esperanto was used mainly in publications by Zamenhof and early adopters like Antoni Grabowski, in extensive correspondence ( mostly now lost ), in the magazine La Esperantisto, published from 1889 to 1895 and only occasionally in personal encounters.
La Varenne also published a book on pastry in 1667 entitled Le Parfait confitvrier ( republished as Le Confiturier françois ) which similarly updated and codified the emerging haute cuisine standards for desserts and pastries.
In 1995, the posthumous release Chaosophy published essays and interviews concerning Guattari's work as director of the experimental La Borde clinic and his collaborations with Deleuze.
* 1881 – The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
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* La Guardia Gluck, Gemma: Fiorello's Sister: La Guardia's Gluck's story, originally published in 1961, reissued in 2007 with new material, edited by Rochelle Saidel.
He was more successful as a journalist and published articles in Monde, a political / literary journal edited by Henri Barbusse, – his first article as a professional writer, La Censure en Angleterre, appeared in that journal on 6 October 1928 – G. K .' s Weekly – where his first article to appear in England, A Farthing Newspaper, was printed on 29 December 1928 – and Le Progrès Civique ( founded by the left-wing coalition Le Cartel des Gauches ).
It was in the Irish camp with Schomberg that Abbadie commenced one of his most successful works, which was published at Rotterdam in 1692, as L ' Art de se connoître soi-même ; ou, La Recherche des Sources de la Morale, and went through many editions and amplifications.
The first anarchist journal to use the term " libertarian " was La Libertaire, Journal du Mouvement Social and it was published in New York City between 1858 and 1861 by French anarcho-communist Joseph Déjacque.
He later published the Plateau Mont-Royal Chronicles, a cycle of six novels including The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant ( La grosse femme d ' à côté est enceinte, 1978 ) and The Duchess and the Commoner ( La duchesse et le roturier, 1982 ).
A Warrior's Apprentice comic book was published in France in January 2010, the first of a projected series called La Saga Vorkosigan ..
Nevertheless, in 1637 he published part of this work in three essays: Les Météores ( The Meteors ), La Dioptrique ( Dioptrics ) and La Géométrie ( Geometry ), preceded by an introduction, his famous Discours de la Métode ( Discourse on the Method ).
Dr. La Forest Potter of New York City published Strange Loves: A Study in Sexual Abnormalities, which focused on homosexuality, in 1933, probably to exploit the interest in the subject generated by the American publication of Radclyffe Hall ’ s novel The Well of Loneliness and Blair Niles ’ s Strange Brother.

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