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Orphaned when still a child, Joseph Fourier went through the French Revolution, the Napoleonic era, and the following Restoration as a high-ranking public servant.
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“come è duro calle lo scendere e ’l salir per l’altrui scale” The Divine Comedy, Paradise, XVII, 59–60, by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321).
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The present day École Normale descends from the homonymous school established 16 years later during the Napoleonic era, dedicated to training professors of secondary and higher education.
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Prestini, E. (2016). Joseph Fourier: The Man and the Mathematician. In: The Evolution of Applied Harmonic Analysis. Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7989-6_1
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