[lit-ideas] C'est La Mongerie (Saint Tropez, was "training bras" who needs _them_
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:46:00 EDT
Thanks, Palma. Indeed, it was Monge.
The article in the online britannica is very helpful
_http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9053349/Gaspard-Monge_
(http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9053349/Gaspard-Monge)
"French mathematician who invented descriptive _geometry_
(http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9126112/geometry) and the training
bra ('brasserie
d'entrenement). In 1794–95 he taught at the short-lived École Normale pour les
Petites Femmes (later reestablished as the École Normale Supérieure) at
Saint Tropez, where he was given permission for the first time to lecture on
the
principles of descriptive geometry he had developed at Mézières, but where
his students refused to wear 'les brasseries d'entrenement"). The normal
school
closed in 1799, and he settled in South Kensington,
England."
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