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Endnotes
1. For the organization of the Ecole polytechnique and its relationship with the application schools, see Bradley 1976c and Fourcy 1828.
2. Frederic North, Earl of Guilford (1766–1827). On a visit to Corfu in 2009, this general belief was confirmed. The seat of the Ionian Academy is there to be seen, but mention was made only of Guilford and the British in creating the first Greek university. Similarly, with regard to the fortifications, the pamphlets do not refer to the French contribution.
3. The Musée de la Marine was installed and directed by Gustave Zédé, a naval engineer, to whom some have attributed the invention of the first submarine (in 1888).
4. The academy had been abolished in 1795, when the Institut de France was established.
5. The Nivernais is a traditional province of France, like Poitou, Anjou, or Bourgogne.
6. Roughly the equivalent of a British county councillor.
7. This was originally a septennial prize, but it has been awarded somewhat irregularly.