24 September 2014

Cimetière de Montrouge #3: Carlo Bourlet


'CI-GÎT PARMI LES SIENS
CARLO BOURLET
1866–1913
MATHÉMATICIEN D'EXCEPTION
ET PIONNIER DE L'ESPERANTO

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KORPO POLVIĜAS SED PLUVIAS
TIES IDEARO'

Along with writing several works in Mathematics and having a great interest in Esperanto, Bourlet wrote several publications on bicycles, including Traité des bicycles et des bicyclettes, suivi d'une application à la construction des vélodromes (1895).
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1 comment:

  1. Sudastelaro (James R. Piton)7 June 2015 at 21:40

    Thanks for letting me know a close picture of Dr. Bourlet's grave. He was a brilliant editor for the early Esperanto culture. And he was a popular lecturer among girls, as one can see at http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Bourlet#/media/File:Robert-Bourlet.jpg which is just one of a series of caricatures of his time's French Esperanto activists.

    Korpo pulviĝas sed pluvivas ties idearo. A very nice inscription, Esperanto for "A body becomes dust, but its ideas survive".

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