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It is the 31 October 1920, and we are on the wide public terrace on the Meudon estate, in front of the “château neuf” of Louis, the Grand Dauphin, heir to Louis XIV, who died before his father. It was Jules Janssen who transformed the building into an observatory at the beginning of the 1880s.
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Pulkova Observatory.
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Bigourdan, Guillaume, in Inauguration de la statue de Jules Janssen, Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1920, 9—14, p. 10.
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Decree dated 05 October 1926.
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Inauguration de la statue de Jules Janssen, p.3.
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Le Petit Journal, 31 October 1920, p. 6.
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Inauguration de la statue de Jules Janssen, p.4.
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Potin was a grocery company. The photographs could be found inside the wrappers of all their products.
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Apart from Janssen, there were Adolphe Alphand, Claude Bernard, Marcelin Berthelot, Alphonse Bertillon, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, Paul Broca, Eugène Chevreul, Gustave Eiffel, Hervé Faye, Camille Flammarion, Charles Hermite, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Louis Pasteur, Alfred Picard, Henri Poincaré, and Louis Troost.
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Musée d’Orsay archives, ARO 1985-27.
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Launay, F. (2012). Foreword. In: The Astronomer Jules Janssen. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 380. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0697-6_1
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