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	Le Gentil (1725-92)
		Le Gentil's work was published in the volume of the Royal Academy for 1759, which was finally printed in 1765.
		In March 1760, Le Gentil went on ship to sail from Brest on an expedition to observe the transit of Venus of June, 1761.
		Le Gentil discovered four or possibly five deepsky objects, including two original discoveries of M32, the companion of the Andromeda Nebula, and the nebula in M8, the Lagoon Nebula, and perhaps a third one, that of NGC 6712.
	www.seds.org /messier/xtra/Bios/legentil.html (493 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Guillaume_Le_Gentil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la GalaisiÃ¨re (September 12, 1725 â“ October 22, 1792) was a French astronomer.
		He discovered what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).
		However, he is chiefly remembered today for the unfortunate fate that befell him when he set out to observe the transit of Venus in 1761 at Pondicherry, a French colony in India.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Guillaume_Le_Gentil (590 words)

	Le Gentil (de la Galaziere), Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean Baptiste (1725-1792)
		Le Gentil then contracted dysentery and remained bedridden for nine months.
		Le Gentil crossed the Pyrenees on foot and returned to France after an absence of more than 11 years, only to learn that he had been declared dead, his estate looted, and its remains divided up among his heirs and creditors.
		In fact, he lived at the Paris Observatory and the observatory's records contain a complaint that Madame Le Gentil hung out diapers to dry in the observatory gardens.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/L/Le_Gentil.html (326 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Guillaume Le Gentil
		Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière (September 12 1725 – October 22 1792) was a French astronomer.
		Le Gentil's story is told in detail in Helen Sawyer Hogg, "Le Gentil and the Transits of Venus, 1761 and 1769", Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, vol.
		Le Gentil himself was the author of Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde, fait par ordre du Roi, à l'occasion du passage de Vénus, sur le disque du Soleil, le 6 juin 1761 & le 3 du même mois 1769 par M. Le Gentil, de l'académie royale des sciences.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil (702 words)

	Guillaume Le Gentil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The return trip was first delayed by illness, and further when his ship was caught in a storm and dropped him off at Île Bourbon (Réunion), where he had to wait until a Spanish ship took him home.
		Le Gentil's attempt to view the eclipse in India also figures in Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything.
		Le Gentil himself was the author of Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde, fait par ordre du Roi, à l'occasion du passage de Vénus, sur le disque du Soleil, le 6 juin 1761 and le 3 du même mois 1769 par M. Le Gentil, de l'académie royale des sciences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guillaume_Le_Gentil (624 words)

	Simple Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Le Gentil was an educated French nobleman (if you didn't guess from the name) dispatched from France on March 26, 1760 to Pondicherry, a French possession in eastern India.
		Le Gentil tried to setup to make his preliminary observations, but Don Jose suspected him of being a spy and had him tailed and otherwise harassed.
		Le Gentil and the others finally coaxed, wheedled, cajoled, threatened and otherwise talked him into coming out of his cabin and saving their collective hides.
	home.comcast.net /~fxmurphy/TransitHistory.htm (1312 words)

	Le Gentil (crater) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Le Gentil is a lunar crater that is located in the south-southwest part of the Moon, near the limb, and is nearly attached to the southern rim of the huge Bailly walled plain.
		The interior floor is covered in a multitude of tiny craterlets and two small craters: 'Le Gentil C' and 'Le Gentil B'.
		By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to le Gentil crater.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Le_Gentil_(crater) (205 words)

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	Guillaume Le Gentil -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The return trip was first delayed by illness, and further when his ship was caught in a storm and dropped him off at Île Bourbon ((The act of coming together again) Réunion), where he had to wait until a Spanish ship took him home.
		Le Gentil's attempt to view the eclipse in India also figures in (Click link for more info and facts about Bill Bryson) Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything.
		Le Gentil himself was the author of Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde, fait par ordre du Roi, à l'occasion du passage de Vénus, sur le disque du Soleil, le 6 juin 1761 & le 3 du même mois 1769 par M. Le Gentil, de l'académie royale des sciences.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gu/guillaume_le_gentil.htm (502 words)

	Guillaume Le Gentil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		He discovered what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula in Cygnus sometimes known as Le Gentil 3.
		But having learned that war had broken out between France and Britain, and deeming it dangerous to try and reach Pondicherry, he determined to go elsewhere; a frigate was bound for the coast of Coromandel, and he sailed in March 1761.
		He wrote Voyage dans les mers de l'Inde, fait par ordre du Roi, à l'occasion du passage de Vénus, sur le disque du Soleil, le 6 juin 1761 & le 3 du même mois 1769 par M. Le Gentil, de l'académie royale des sciences.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/guillaume_le_gentil (620 words)

	Day Trip to Venus - It's a 122-year Wait- Times Foundation - Indiatimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		And Guillaume Le Gentil, a minor nobleman tuned astrologer, was sent to Pondicherry, the main French possession in India.
		Le Gentil spent much of the rest of his life in courts, fighting for the return of his property (the Academy, at least, did reinstate him).
		I am your patron saint.” Le Gentil was not a mediocrity — he made other astronomical discoveries, though characteristically, the 10 cases of natural history specimens he collected in his years in the Indian Ocean were lost on the return voyage — but he could be the patron saint of the unlucky.
	timesfoundation.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-726051,prtpage-1.cms (1915 words)

	SEE Magazine: September 30th, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Guillaume Le Gentil (David Ley) is a scientist with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, a sharp mind and a cocky manner.
		The older Le Gentil toys with Celeste, a starry-eyed, pouting teen, in an outstanding display of emotional manipulation: the sickness breeds for six years while Le Gentil sails the seas, studies the Earth and the sky, and nurses his sickly sidekick Demarais (Christopher Bullough).
		Indeed, Le Gentil is not the centre of the universe.
	www.seemagazine.com /Issues/1999/0930/stage4.htm (478 words)

	1792 - Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie gratuite et libre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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		Le Kentucky devient le quinzième état de l'union américaine.
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	www.belgique.com /encyclopedia/index.php/1792 (674 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Transit_of_Venus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		One such expedition was undertaken by the most unfortunate Guillaume Le Gentil, whose unsuccessful journey led to him losing his possessions and wife and being declared legally dead.
		Another was the first voyage of Captain Cook to observe the 1769 transit from Tahiti, before sailing on to New Zealand and then Australia, where his was to be the first expedition to chart the eastern coastline in 1770.
		The efforts of Guillaume Le Gentil to observe the transit of Venus in different parts of the globe, became the subject of the fictionalised play Transit of Venus by Maureen Hunter.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Transit_of_Venus (1907 words)

	Transit Of Venus, a CurtainUp review
		The Le Gentil of this play is attached to three women: his mother Madame Sylvie (Payton-Wright), his former mistress and household employee Margot (Urbano), and Margot's fifteen-year-old daughter Celeste (Marin Hinkle).
		Le Gentil, a typical macho male of his day, has had his share of non-celestial adventures, which include Margot whom he has discarded for her nubile daughter.
		The scene when he warns Celeste that Le Gentil is a man who'll sometimes exceed her expectations and describes to her how he has learned that the life for him is that of "the little people" is particularly moving.
	www.curtainup.com /b-venus.html (908 words)

	StarDate Online \| Venus Transits the Sun (2004) - Transit History
		Le Gentil headed for Pondichery, on the eastern coast of India.
		Pondichery fell under British control, and Le Gentil had to watch the transit from the heaving deck of a ship, where it was impossible to make accurate measurements.
		Le Gentil was so depressed that he couldn't even write his report to the French Academy of Sciences.
	stardate.org /nightsky/transit04-history.html (1311 words)

	Book Review, The Transits of Venus
		The saddest story about any of the transits is that of Guillaume Le Gentil, who left France to travel to India to observe the 1761 transit.
		France was at war with England, which laid siege to Pondicherry, Le Gentil's destination on the subcontinent, while the Frenchman was en route.
		Le Gentil's sad story was a cautionary tale I and other prospective transit watchers repeated to each other to prepare us for the chance of being frustrated by bad weather.
	wkaa.net /article.php?articleid=44&cat=GA&ret=index.php (1057 words)

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		The title comes from Le Gentil's commitment to observing the passing of Venus across the face of the sun, an eclipse that generally happens once in a century or so, but happened twice in his lifetime.
		Le Gentil's household comprises his servant Demarais and the three women he leaves behind: his mother, Madame Sylvie; his housekeeper and former mistress, Margot; and Margot's 15-year-old daughter, Celeste (note the heavenly imagery).
		The opening act lets us watch Le Gentil interact with each of these characters - projecting a different persona with each one, and combining elements of them all with Celeste in a scene where she demands that her love for him be acknowledged.
	www.nsnews.com /issues03/w040603/042103/artent/041203ae5.html (769 words)

	Transits of Venus
		Le Gentil was discouraged that he had travelled halfway around the world for nothing...
		Le Gentil decided on the remains of a palace which had been destroyed in the war.
		Le Gentil writes that the morning skies were beautiful during the entire month of May, and for the first two days of June; but during the night before the transit, the weather turned.
	spiff.rit.edu /classes/phys235/venus_t/venus_t.html (4972 words)

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	chinon-rose.com (3849 words)

	Strange Cases from the Files of Astronomical Sociology
		The French astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil (1725-1792) made a valiant effort to observe the transits of Venus across the disk of the Sun.
		Le Gentil crossed the Pyrenees on foot and returned to France after an absence of 11 and one-half years, only to learn that he had been declared dead, his estate looted, and its remains divided up among his heirs and creditors.
		Le Gentil did not give up astronomy after his return to France.
	www.nd.edu /~kkrisciu/strange/strange.html (2170 words)

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	www.patrimoine-de-france.org (1052 words)

	George Forbes and the Transit of Venus
		Guillaume Le Gentil, the French astronomer, was particularly unlucky.
		Disaster hit again when his own ship was caught in storms, which meant that he was stuck at sea when the transit arrived.
		Le Gentil was not the only one who failed.
	www.observatorypitlochry.com /transit_article.htm (1332 words)

	SEE Magazine: September 23th, 1999
		Guillaume Le Gentil de la Galasiere is a 35-year-old astronomer traveling to the tropics as part of an international science project.
		Its goal is to study a rare astronomical event and determine the distance of the Earth to the sun and, ultimately, the size of the solar system itself.
		The play addresses enormous issues, examining the impact Le Gentil’s enterprise had on those he left at home and those who traveled with him.
	www.seemagazine.com /Issues/1999/0923/stage1.htm (579 words)

	Plays on Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		This play by Canadian playwright Maureen Hunter was published in 1992 and concerns the efforts of French astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil (1725-1792) to measure the transits of Venus, which was an important method in the 18th century to establish the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
		Le Gentil returns home, having failed in his endeavor and having been declared dead, only to find his estate confiscated, his mother senile and Celeste pregnant.
		The author seems to lay most of the blame with Le Gentil's scientific pursuits, and throughout he is portrayed as a self-centered, if lively, egotist.
	godel.ph.utexas.edu /~tonyr/plays_sci.html (1027 words)

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