In 1855 Napoleon III "swung" a deal arranging for his appointment as physicist at the Paris Observatory
He was appointed professor of fortifications at the old Ecole 
Militaire in Paris... [DOC] [TLE] From Semaphore to Satellite - If you - ITU [PAR] It was apparently the great English physicist and chemist Robert Hooke (1635-
1703), ... his apparatus at the Etoile in Paris was destroyed by the furious mob 
who ... when he was appointed lngenieur-Telegy aphiste and ordered to 
establish a line ... London and Deal at a cost of nearly 4000; others followed to 
Portsmouth,... [DOC] [TLE] Charles Sanders Peirce - St. Isidore forum [PAR] of Peirce's thinking, especially of a seminal paper of his dated May 14, 1867, took 
up .... deal of evidence in support of this hypothesis, and I have added some ......