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Renée Canavaggia
Renée Canavaggia (9 May 1902 - 1996), was a French astrophysicist and translator. Early life and family Canavaggia was born in Castelsarrasin, France, to Louise Patry of Limoges and Jerome Canavaggia, a Corsican magistrate. She was the youngest of three daughters; her older sisters were Marie (who became a professional translator and literary secretary to Louis-Ferdinand Céline) and Jeanne (a noted abstract painter). She studied philosophy at the University of Montpellier and then went to Paris with her sister Marie, staying in a flat at the Square de Port-Royal for a number of years. She then oriented her studies towards mathematics. Career In early 1930 she became a trainee at the ''Observatoire de Paris''. Amongst other partnerships, she worked with astronomer and mathematician Henri Mineur on numerical methods and with astronomers Daniel Barbier and Daniel Chalonge on stellar classification. Between 1936 and 1940, she was works director at the office of stellar stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castelsarrasin
Castelsarrasin (; oc, Los Sarrasins) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in Occitanie region of France. The inhabitants are called ''Castelsarrasinois''. It is the second most populous commune in Tarn-et-Garonne after Montauban. It is served by Castelsarrasin station on the Bordeaux-Toulouse line. History The first certain evidence of the town dates from 961. The name, ''Castel Sarracenum'', would indicate that the castle was built in the Saracen era. The early history of the city is marked by wars; against the English until the end of the 12th century, then the Albigensian Crusade during the first part of the 13th century, and then the Shepherd's Crusade of 1320 that resulted in the deaths of many Jews in the city. The region was much affected by the Hundred Years' War, and again, during the wars of religion of the 16th century, the city's largely Catholic population was in frequent conflict with the generally Protestant surrounding region. The region is calm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |