Abstract
MEUSNIER passed through mathematics like a comet. His life illustrates the Ancients’ prophesy: Whom the gods love dies young. In his boyhood he attended no school but was taught by his father, of an old Touranian family given to law and administration. In those days the only engineering school in France (and perhaps anywhere) was the Ecole Royale du Genie Militaire at Mezieres;’ to prepare for it, during 1771-1773 MEUSNIER received private tutoring in Paris. His first appearance at Mezieres was described as follows, eighteen years after his death, by GASPARD MONGE ( 1746-1818),2 who had been his teacher there in MEUSNIER’S twenty-first and twenty-second years, 1774-1775:
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