Carnot, Sadi, 21, 240

Carron foundries, 127, 134, 148

Cauchy, Augustin-Louis, xiv, 29

Caventou, Joseph Bienaimé, 73

Chabrol, Christophe de, 159, 200

Chaptal, Jean-Antoine, 163, 197, 242–243, 246n3

Charles, Jacques, 117–118, 122n4

Chartier, Roger, 223

Chatelle, Albert, 84–85

Chevalier, Michel, 235

Choiseul, Etienne-François, Duc de, 156, 160n11

choropleth map, 192, 222

Christen, Carole, 252, 272

Clapeyron, Emile-Benoît, 240, 248–249

Clément-Desormes, Nicolas, 147, 160n6, 165, 179–180, 185

Clerk Maxwell, James, 35

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 172, 229–232, 242

Comte, Auguste, 183, 240

Conservatoire des arts et métiers, xiv, 2, 8, 10, 42, 67, 97, 114, 141, 147, 150, 160, 162–166, 168–169, 171–185, 189–190, 194, 197–200, 202–203, 205, 222–223, 232, 235, 238–239, 243, 256–258, 260–261, 272–275, 278, 286–290, 298

Correspondance sur l’Ecole polytechnique, 34–40, 46, 50, 52, 62

Courier, Paul-Louis, 193, 207n3

cyclides, 27, 33–35, 39, 47, 293

Danton, Georges-Jacques, 185

Davin, Emanuel, 85

Davy, Humphry, Sir, 133, 147

Decazes, Louis Charles Elie Amanieu, 163, 165, 180, 189

Delambre, Jean-Baptiste Joseph, 51, 54–55, 89

Delangle, Claude Alphonse, 250

De la Salle, Abbé, 173

Deluret aîné, 71, 75n6

Donzelot, François-Xavier, Général, 59

Drée, Etienne de, Marquis, 268, 282n5

Duckworth, John Thomas, Admiral, 46, 57n1

Dufaud, Georges, 57n3, 98, 116, 156, 215

Duhamel de Monceau, Henri-Louis, 108

Dulaure, Jacques-Antoine, 174–175

Dulong, Pierre-Louis, 6, 24

Dumas, Jean-Baptiste, 170n2, 184

Duméril, André-Marie Constant, 218–219

Dupin aîné. SeeDupin, André-Marie, 13–17, 54, 79, 81–82, 104–106, 116–117, 127, 167, 213, 221, 249–251, 264–266, 279, 285

Dupin, André-Marie, SeeDupin aîné

Dupin, Catherine-Agnès (Dupin’s mother), 5–6, 18, 19–21, 33, 79

Dupin, Catherine-Rosalie-Anne-Marie, 9, 224

Dupin, Charles-André, See Dupin père

Dupin, Charles-André (junior), 9

Dupin, Charlotte, 9

Dupin, Claude, 185

Dupin père. See Dupin, Charles-André (Dupin’s father), 5, 13–20, 24, 26, 33, 41, 73, 77–81, 91, 100–101, 128, 135, 162–163, 166, 256, 264, 285