Meanings of french savant in English

The French savants conveyed the electric current through a circuit of twelve thousand feet.

Just then the Director, a French savant, bustled in, alert, vigorous, full of interest.

The achievement of this French savant makes a brilliant record in the early pages of our history.

In the foremost rank of the Antarctic explorers of our time stands the French savant and yachtsman, Dr. Jean Charcot.

The same thing happened to a French savant among the mountains of Spain, when he was measuring the terrestrial meridian.

The science of right living was evolved by Charles Fourier, a French savant who gave his life to humanitarian studies.

Christian though he was, he was, nevertheless, Oriental to his farthermost corner, and had the culture of a French savant.

His conversation, I remember, was about the Bertillon system of measurements, and he expressed his enthusiastic admiration of the French savant.

The distinguished French savant, Augustus Mariette, (1821-1881) began his remarkable excavations in Egypt in the year 1850.

A university had been founded at Coimbra, in Portugal, and Andrea Govea had been invited to bring thither what French savants he could collect.

Abbeville is an out-of-the-way place, very little visited; and the French savants who meet him in Paris laugh at Monsieur de Perthes and his researches.

Having read an account of the experiments of M. E. Becquerel, a French savant, on photographing in the colours of nature, my curiosity was awakened.