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CAMILLE (flä-märe-ôn'), a French astronomer, writer on descriptive astronomy, and "astronomical FLANK Haute-Marne, France, Feb. 25, 1842.
He was designed by his parents for the Church, but went over to science, and by a long course of writings of a more or less popular character made his name widely known. "The Plurality of the wi Inhabited Worlds" (1862); "Celestial Wonders" (1865); 1865); "The Atmosphere" (1872) ; "Urania" (1889) ; "The Planet Mars and Its Habitability" (1892); "Popular Astronomy" (1894); and "Lumen" (1897), "Thunder and Lightning" (1906), "Mysterious Psychic Forces" (1907), etc., are among his best known works.