Participants in the July Revolution included Marie Joseph Paul Ives Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette.

The marquis de Condorcet (1743 1794) proposed grinding such a lens from a single thin piece of glass.

Indeed, the Marquis de Custine s Letters from Russia suggested that Russian civilization amounted to little more than the mimicry of monkeys.

French activity in those parts would continue throughout the 19th century, as his nephew Abel Nicolas Bergasse Dupetit Thouars went on pacifying the Marquesas Islands in 1880.

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis KG (31 December 1738 5 October 1805), styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as The Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator.