Malus, Etienne-Louis, 52, 192, 207n2

Mannheim, Amédée, 39

Marchant de la Houlière, Henri, 95

Marestier, Jean-Baptiste, 49, 57n2

Marmont, Frédéric, Louis Viesse de, 118, 122n8

Mathieu, Claude-Louis, 28, 41, 48, 50–53, 55, 70, 88, 100, 124, 162, 192

Maudslay, Henry, 137, 138n6

Mill, John Stuart, 232, 234–235

Missiessy, Edouard Burgues de, 160n1

Monge, Gaspard, xiv, 1–2, 18, 21, 25, 28–33, 35, 37–38, 40–41, 50–53, 55, 67, 93, 172–173, 190, 192–193, 196, 228, 286, 290, 297

Moreau, Pierre, 49

Morgan, Lady (pseudonym of Sydney Owenson), 131

Morin, Arthur, General, 10, 165, 288, 290

Morin, Marie-Renée, 252–253

Moutard, Théodore, 35

Musée de la Marine, 7, 12n3

Musée maritime, 84

Napoléon, Louis, 255, 285

Navier, Claude Louis Marie Henri, 149, 160n7

Olivier, Théodore, 170n2, 184

Paixhans, Henry Joseph, 156, 160n12

Palsky, Gilles, 184, 220, 222

Paris caisse d’épargne, 272

Parizot, 156

Pasteur, Louis, 10, 290

Peace of Amiens, 46, 159

Péclet, Jean-Claude Eugène, 170n2, 184

Pelletier, Pierre-Joseph, 73

Périer brothers, 95

Périer, Jacques-Constantin, 118, 162

Perrin, Fernand, 26, 111n1, 217, 271, 286

Peter the Great, 94, 111n2

Playfair, John, 30

Poincaré, Henri, 92n2

Poisson, Siméon Denis, 118, 122n6, 190

Polignac, Jules Auguste Arnaud Marie de, 159, 160n14, 254, 257

Poncelet, Jean-Victor, 164, 170n1, 182, 200–201, 241

Ponteil, Félix, 213

Prony, Gaspard-Clair-François-Marie Riche de, xiv–xv, 9–10, 23, 25, 51, 55, 63, 75n3, 99, 102, 109, 140, 149, 160n3, 179, 191, 266

Puget, 84–85, 88, 92n3

Quesnay, François, 230–231

Racine, Jean, 2, 131

railways, 98, 142, 157, 160n13, 240, 248–251, 266

Rapetti, Pierre Nicolas, 288–290

Rennie, George, 148

Rennie, John, 109, 111n7

Ribaucour, Albert, 52–53

Ricardo, David, 234–235