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Birth of Gaspard Monge

Gaspard Monge, the mathematician who created descriptive geometry and helped found the École polytechnique, was born in Beaune on 9 May 1746, the son of Jacques Monge, a Savoyard merchant and craftsman, and Jeanne Rousseaux, from Burgundy.

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