Sully, Henry

St Sulpice s meridienne is special for three reasons. Firstly, the eminent English astronomer, Henry Sully (1680-1728), installed it in 1727. Henry, who lies in St Sulpice, spent most of his life on the Continent. From 1718 he worked under the protection of the Philippe II, Due d Orleans (1674-1723). Philippe came to power in 1715 as Regent de France, because Louis XV was in his minority. 

Henry Sully played a major role in solving the problem of longitude. Historians regard his 1724 timepiece C as one of the twelve most important marine timekeepers in the quest for longitude. It predated John Harrison s first attempt by 11 years. 

Out of this, Henry Sully and Eugene Delacroix delivered us an extremely impressive church with magnificent images of Jacob, the defense of the Temple treasure and the patron saint protector St Michael fighting the internal enemy - directly attached to Mount Cardou by the rose linel... 

This is how I prove that it has been impossible to exclude from this Dictionary everything that might sully the imagination. For however delicate the language, one necessarily sullies the imagination whenever one mentions that Henry IV had natural children. 

Edict of Nantes guaranteeing limited toleration for the Reformed communities. Sully under Henry IV reorganises French finances. 

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