César-Mansuète Despretz
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César-Mansuète Despretz was a chemist and physicist, b. at Lessines, Belgium, 11 May, 1798; d. at Paris, 11 May, 1863. He was Chaire de physique at the Faculté des sciences in Paris.
This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.