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Charles-Nicolas Peaucellier (16 June 1832 – 4 October 1913)^[1] was a French engineer who graduated from the École polytechnique. He made a career in the French army and was promoted to général de division in 1888.

He is best known for the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage which was partly named after him.^[2]^[3]^[4]

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[1] [1] Leonore

[2] Mathematical tutorial of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage

[3] How to draw a straight line by Daina Taimina

[4] Note sur le Losange Articulé du Commandant du Génie Peaucellier, destiné a remplacer le Parallélogramme de Watt (in French)

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 [[File:FriedhofDillingen.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|Grave in [[Dillingen/Saar]] 1919-1929]]
 [[File:Wallerfangen Grabstätte Peaucellier.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|Grave in [[Wallerfangen]] since 1929]]
-'''Charles-Nicolas Peaucellier''' (16 June 1832 &ndash; 4 October 1919)<ref>[http://www.culture.gouv.fr/LH/LH176/PG/FRDAFAN83_OL2077021V001.htm] Leonore</ref> was a French engineer who graduated from the ''[[École polytechnique]]''. He made a career in the French army and was promoted to ''général de division'' in 1888.
+'''Charles-Nicolas Peaucellier''' (16 June 1832 &ndash; 4 October 1913)<ref>[http://www.culture.gouv.fr/LH/LH176/PG/FRDAFAN83_OL2077021V001.htm] Leonore</ref> was a French engineer who graduated from the ''[[École polytechnique]]''. He made a career in the French army and was promoted to ''général de division'' in 1888.
 He is best known for the ''[[Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage]]'' which was partly named after him.<ref>[http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/tutorials/11/ Mathematical tutorial of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage]</ref><ref>[http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/tutorials/04/ How to draw a straight line by Daina Taimina]</ref><ref>