19th century French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, having supervised the construction of the Suez canal, was later famously tried and convicted for what?
Mismanagement of the construction of the Panama Canal
What fashion in French architecture had much to do with the regency of Marie de' Medici? (The greatest architects of the style were Salomon de Brosse and Jacques Lemercier.)
Which 19th century French physicist erected a pendulum 200 feet high in the Pantheon in Paris to demonstrate the earth's rotation?
The French novelist, polemicist and physician Louis Ferdinand Destouches (1894 - 1961, pen-name Louis-Ferdinand Céline) is known as much for his controversial and successful writing as for what element in it?
