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the fertile initiatives of numerous brilliant works. Cauchy con- 
tinued the publication of this Review until his death. 
The revolution of 1830 interrupted his quiet life. At this 
time he was married and the father of two daughters. Besides - 
his oer abip in the Polytechnic School, he had a chair in 
the Faculty of Sciences at Paris, and was supplying the course of 
mathematical physics in the College of France.. The new goy- 
ernment imposed. an oath of allegiance on all its officers, even 
those engaged in teaching physics and mathematics. Cauchy 
5 i his place and went to Switzerland. The king of Sar- 
Inia, informed of his voluntary exile, created for him in the 
University of Turin, a special chair of mathematics, which he 
lled with distinction, still continuing his other labors. In 1882 
the Princes to Goritz ; during six years at this place he bis sic 
a large number of valuable memoirs, which are now spread over 
Germany. Towards the end of 1838, his duties as preceptor 
Sthle in results, or will yet do so, They treat of the highest 
Subjects in mathematics :—-the perfecting and extension of pure 
___ Nalysis—the direct determination of the eocag motions and 
a eory of light, 
pees the initiatives of ideas which have either already proved 
| In 1840 
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ffered him. 
the death of Poisson left vacant a place in the Bureau 
des; and Cauchy was nominated unanimously by the 
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