Captain Antoine René Thévenard used the spring on his anchor cable to angle his broadside into a raking position across the bow of Nelson's flagship, which consequently suffered over 100 casualties, including the admiral.

* 1683 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist ( d. 1757 )

Drawing on this knowledge, both René Just Haüy and Antoine César Becquerel posited a relationship between mechanical stress and electric charge ; however, experiments by both proved inconclusive.

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* October 17 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist ( b. 1683 )

* February 28 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist ( d. 1757 )

* 1731 — René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur the Réaumur scale, On this scale 0 represented the freezing point of water ( 273. 15 K ) and 80 represented the boiling point ( 373. 15 K ).

But the inheritance was claimed by the heir-male, Antoine de Vaudemont, who with Burgundian help defeated René at Bulgneville in July 1431.

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At this period he edited the works of Nicolas Malebranche ( 2 vols, 1842 ), of René Descartes ( 1842 ), Bossuet ( 1842 ) and of Antoine Arnauld ( 1843 ), and in 1844 – 1845 appeared the two volumes of his Histoire de l ' école d ' Alexandrie.

The scale is named after René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, who first proposed something similar in 1730.

The Martyrs are St. Jean de Brébeuf ( 1649 ), St. Noël Chabanel ( 1649 ), St. Antoine Daniel ( 1648 ), St. Charles Garnier ( 1649 ), St. René Goupil ( 1642 ), St. Isaac Jogues ( 1646 ), St. Jean de Lalande ( 1646 ), and St. Gabriel Lalemant ( 1649 ).

When his studies ended, he became secretary to Antoine Bohier, and later entered Court life as tutor to the sons of René de Savoie.

Preeminent among these scientific pioneers were Swammerdam, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Charles Bonnet, and the blind Swiss scientist Francois Huber.

* Joseph ( in French ): Natalie Dessay, soprano ; Brigitte Lafon, mezzo-soprano ; Laurence Dale, Antoine Normand, Philippe Pistole, tenors ; René Massis, baritone ; Frédéric Vassar, Philippe Jorquera, basses ; Abbi Patrix, speaker ; Ensemble choral " Intermezzo " ; Orchestre régional de Picardie " Le Sinfonietta " ; Claude Bardon, conductor.

* René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur begins publication of Mémoires pour servir à l ' histoire des insectes in Amsterdam.

* The Reaumur scale is developed by French naturalist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, with 0 °

* René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur publishes his work on metallurgy, L ' Arte de convertir le fer forge en acier, which describes how to convert iron into steel.

* René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur produces a paper on the use of spiders to produce silk.

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Through Ampère, Ozanam had contact with leaders of the neo-Catholic movement, such as François-René de Chateaubriand, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, and Charles Forbes René de Montalembert.

Band members were rapper Rudeboy Remmington ( Patrick Tilon ), guitarist Tres Manos ( René van Barneveld ), bassist Sil ( Silvano Matadin ), drummer Magic Stick ( Michel Schoots ) and DJ DNA ( DoNotAsk ) ( Arjen de Vreede ).

* 1506 – René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor ( d. 1583 )

* Daval, René, Moore et la philosophie analytique, 1997, Presses Universitaires de France ( PUF ), ISBN 978-2-13-048690-9 ( French )

Overall the philosophers were inspired by the thoughts of René Descartes, the skepticism of the Libertins and the popularization of science by Bernard de Fontenelle.

Tribute to René Clair: I Married a Witch, Jean Cocteau ( 1945 ), a set design for the Théâtre de la Mode.

While taking a morning walk on the estate of the marquis René Louis de Girardin at Ermenonville ( 28 miles northeast of Paris ), Rousseau suffered a hemorrhage and died, aged 66.

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

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

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

They continued the exploration of the New World: René Robert Cavelier de La Salle travelled in the area of the Great Lakes, then on the Mississippi River.

Politicians such as René Pleven, who later became Prime Minister, and officers as General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Lieutenant René Amiot, Captain Raymond Delange, Colonel Edgar De Larminat and Adolphe Sicé helped him to gain control of the AEF territory.

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* René Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve, L ’ Afrique ou Histoire, mœurs, usages et coutumes des Africains: le Sénégal, orné de 44 planches exécutées la plupart d ' après des dessins originaux inédits faits sur les lieux, Paris, Nepveu, 1814.

Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples.

The origin of the Statue of Liberty project is sometimes traced to a comment made by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye in mid-1865.

In the UPU Monument ( Weltpostdenkmal ) in Bern, bronze and granite, by René de Saint-Marceaux, the five continents join to transmit messages around the globe

* July 29 – René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, Chancellor of France ( b. 1714 )