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Leburton, Edmond Jules Isidore -- Encyclopædia Britannica (633 words) |
 | Above all, they are remembered for their perceptive, revealing Journal and for Edmond's legacy, the Académie Goncourt, which annually awards a prize to the author of an outstanding... |
| The hero Edmond Dantès of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 romance The Count of Monte Cristo is a sailor about to become the captain of his own ship when he is condemned to life imprisonment on false political charges. |
| The English astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley was the first to calculate the orbit of a comet later named after him. |
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