Paris folder A/parisA340
Previous | Home | NextThe far-left plaque: "On the wall beside the "Histoire de Paris" is this eroded stone inscription: "In 1829 the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures was founded in this hotel by Lavalee, J. B. Dumas, Peclet, and Olivet. It remained there until 1884." Alphonse Lavallée was a businessman who provided the capital and the mansion. Eugène Jean-Baptiste Dumas was the famous chemist who in the 1800s promoted the development of French chemistry. His involvement in the discovery of elements was indirect but profound; his most important work was done in his laboratory on Rue Cuvier {LINK: ParisG364).
Théodore Olivier (1793-1853), a student of Monge, was a mathematician. who dealt with the intersections of three-dimensional surfaces. Eugène Péclet was a physical scientist after whom the Peclet number was created, a mathematical description of diffusion in fluid mechanics.
