Gaspard monge biography of michael

Biography

Gaspard Monge is one of 72 scientists whose name is on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower.

He is 18th, on the face turned to the South.

Gaspard Monge, a surveyor, was born at Beaune, in Burgundy, in 1746. He died in Paris on July 18, 1818. His father was a little itinerant cutler merchant, who made all the sacrifices to put his three sons in college.

little town he lived in. The eldest, the one who was to become the great Monge, was, from the beginning, an elite subject.

Gaspard monge biography of michael

He won first prizes in all faculties; his masters found a particular pleasure in inscribing, beside his name, the somewhat mannered formula of the schools of that time: Puer aureus. This expression meant: Child comparable to gold, that is to say pupil disintegrated.

At the age of fourteen he executed a fire-pump, the effects of which were admired by the most educated. "How," said he, "have you been able, without a guide or a m