Mouilleron-en-Pareds ( French pronunciation: [mujʁɔ̃ ɑ̃ paʁɛ] ) is a former commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France . On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Mouilleron-Saint-Germain . It is in the arrondissement of Fontenay-le-Comte .
4-666: It is known as the place of birth of Charles-Louis Largeteau (who contributed to the establishment of the Greenwich Meridian ), Georges Clemenceau (head of the French government during World War I and who signed the Treaty of Versailles with Lloyd George , Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and Woodrow Wilson ) and Marshal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (who led the French First Army during the liberation of France with
8-532: The Connaissance des Temps , the astronomical ephemerides used by many navigators, geographers and astronomers of the time. He developed a method of calculating tables to determine the phases of the moon over much longer durations than before (over 30 centuries). Presented at the French Academy of Sciences , it earned admission as a Free Academician on December 13, 1847. This work, in concert with
12-658: The École Polytechnique . In 1813, he joined the Corps royal du génie , where he worked mapping France. In 1825, he participated, alongside John Herschel in a joint French-British governmental study of the difference in longitudes between the observatories of Paris and Greenwich . In 1829, he entered the Bureau des Longitudes and, in 1832, became the secretary-librarian of the Paris Observatory and studied geodesy with François Arago . He both edited and submitted to
16-824: The Allied forces in 1945). This Vendée geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Charles-Louis Largeteau Charles-Louis Largeteau (1791–1857) was a French physicist and astronomer . He was born in Mouilleron-en-Pareds in the Vendée into a poor family. His father, a gunner, died in the 1793 Battle of Le Mans . He was taken in by an uncle in Fontenay-le-Comte , and excelled at school there, moving to grammar school in Poitiers . He studied then at
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