French physicist and engineer Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788 – 1827) contributed significantly to the establishment of what theory?
What was the stage name of Jean François Gravelet, a French acrobat who crossed Niagara Falls in 1859 on a tightrope 160 feet above the water?
Which 19th century French physicist erected a pendulum 200 feet high in the Pantheon in Paris to demonstrate the earth's rotation?
Which French revolutionary, who was instrumental in the death of the King and the establishment of the Republic, was guillotined in 1794?
19th century French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, having supervised the construction of the Suez canal, was later famously tried and convicted for what?
