It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.

After the defeat of Paoli, the Comte de Marbeuf began to meet with some leading Corsicans to outline the shape of the future and enlist their assistance.

* 1429 – English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and Sir John Stewart of Darnley in the Battle of Rouvray ( also known as the Battle of the Herrings ).

The " Royalist democrats " or monarchiens, allied with Necker, inclined toward organising France along lines similar to the British constitutional model ; they included Jean Joseph Mounier, the Comte de Lally-Tollendal, the comte de Clermont-Tonnerre, and Pierre Victor Malouet, comte de Virieu.

General ( United States ) | General Washington and Comte de Rochambeau | the Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, Virginia | Yorktown, Virginia, 1781.

In July 1780, 5, 000 veteran French troops led by General Comte Donatien de Rochambeau arrived at Newport, Rhode Island to aid in the war effort.

In 1657 du Parquet sold Grenada to the Comte de Cerrillac for the equivalent of £ 1890.

Vincent Ogé traveled to St. Domingue to secure the promulgation and implementation of this decree, landing near Cap-Français ( now Cap-Haïtien ) in October 1790 and petitioning the royal governor, the Comte de Peynier.

From 1743 to 1744, Rousseau had an honorable but ill-paying post as a secretary to the Comte de Montaigue, the French ambassador to Venice.

It included a review of alternative theories, such as those of Thomas Burnet and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but The ' official ' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot.

Portrayals of female homosexuality not only formed European consciousness about lesbianism, but Krafft-Ebbing cited the characters in Gustave Flaubert's Salammbo ( 1862 ) and Ernest Feydeau's Le Comte de Chalis ( 1867 ) as examples of lesbians because both novels feature female protagonists who do not adhere to social norms and express " contrary sexual feeling ", although neither participated in same-sex desire or sexual behavior.

The Comte de Mirabeau wrote a scathing indictment of lettres de cachet while imprisoned in the dungeon of Vincennes ( by lettre de cachet obtained by his father ).

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* 1643 – Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Marshal of France ( b. 1602 )

* 1692 – Comte de Caylus, French archaeologist ( d. 1765 )

Charles Comte, in Traité de la propriété ( 1834 ), attempted to justify the legitimacy of private property in response to the Bourbon Restoration.

The celebrated march of 1781 to Yorktown, Virginia that ended with the defeat of the British at the Siege of Yorktown and the Battle of the Chesapeake began in Newport, Rhode Island under the joint command of General George Washington who led American troops and the Comte de Rochambeau who led French soldiers sent by King Louis XVI.

Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

* 1707 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist, biologist, and author ( d. 1788 )

* April 16 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist ( b. 1707 )

* September 7 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French scientist ( d. 1788 )

Towards the late 18th century, Mathurin Jacques Brisson ( 1723 – 1806 ) and Comte de Buffon ( 1707 – 1788 ) began new works on birds.

In his Histoire Naturelle ( 1749 ), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, wrote of the " Black Cougar ": " M. de la Borde, King ’ s physician at Cayenne, informs me, that in the American Continent there are three species of rapacious animals ; that the first is the jaguar, which is called the tiger ; that the second is the couguar, called the red tiger, on account of the uniform redness of his hair ; that the jaguar is of the size of a large bull-dog, and weighs about 200 pounds ; that the cougar is smaller, less dangerous, and not so frequent in the neighbourhood of Cayenne as the jaguar ; and that both these animals take six years in acquiring their full growth.

* 1779 – Comte de Buffon speculates that the Earth is older than the 6, 000 years suggested by the Bible

The idea of creating a thinner, lighter lens by making it with separate sections mounted in a frame is often attributed to Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

In 1749 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon used the name " le Grand Danois ," ( translated by William Smellie as " Great Dane ").

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, one of the top French scientists of the day, mentored Lamarck, and helped him gain membership to the French Academy of Sciences in 1779 and a commission as a Royal Botanist in 1781, in which he traveled to foreign botanical gardens and museums.

* September 7-Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French philosopher ( died 1788 )

* George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon ( 1707 – 1788 )

" The naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon cited this flexibility of purpose as evidence that elephants were capable of " human reasoning, than a simple, natural instinct ".

To this period belongs a long poem, the Veillées des Muses, which remained unfinished, and his ode to Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, which ranks among his best works.

While Linnaeus conceived of species as unchanging parts of a designed hierarchy, the other great naturalist of the 18th century, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, treated species as artificial categories and living forms as malleable — even suggesting the possibility of common descent.

* George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon ( 1707 – 1788 )

Even during his studies, Latreille had taken on an interest in natural history, visiting the planted by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, and catching insects around Paris.

The display of the " mammoth " bones entered Peale into a long standing debate between Thomas Jefferson and Comte de Buffon.

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte of Buffon (; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788 ) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author.

It was acquired by the naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

Blumenbach and other monogenists such as Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon were believers in the " degeneration theory " of racial origins.

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon wrote an influential work in 1749, Natural History, that revived interest in vital nature.

*-1788 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon