François Français

Joseph François Français was a French mathematician. François Français worked extensively on differential calculus. He developed on the previous work of Jean-Robert Argand on complex numbers.

Biography

Hotel of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher, Mainz. Chain-covered ball bombs, from which flames strike, are located at the entrance gate as an allegory for the French artillery school, where François Français was teaching.

François Français was a student in a seminary and afterwards he became a teacher at Colmar College in 1791 for one year and then moved to Strasbourg College in 1792.

The aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789 interrupted his career. Not everyone supported the government that formed after the revolution. The revolution overthrew the monarchy of King Louis XVI to establish a republic but brought in years of turmoil that finally led to the rise of Napoleon.

France faced both internal and external wars. A civil war broke out in 1793 in the coastal region of Vendée in western France as a reaction against the imposition of conscription. This became known as the Guerre de Vendée or War in the Vendée.

The next month royalists and peasants came together in February 1793 and formed an army to fight the new republic. The Jacobin government back in Paris considered the rebellion to be counter-revolutionary, and Royalist.

François Français joined the government's side in May and became a part of the army's response to put down this rebellion