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Joseph Liouville lived through one of the most tumultuous periods of French history. Born at the height of the Napoleonic era, he experienced six violent dynastical changes before he died at a time when France was only slowly recovering from its humiliation in the Franco-Prussian war.
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Lützen, J. (1990). Youth (1809–1830). In: Joseph Liouville 1809–1882. Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, vol 15. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0989-8_1
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