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Marie-Charles Damoiseau

Baron Marie-Charles-Théodore de Damoiseau de Montfort (April 6 1768August 6 1846) was a French astronomer.

He was born in Besançon. He left France during the French Revolution, and worked as assistant director of the Lisbon Observatory , but returned to France in 1807.

In 1825 he became a member of the French Academy of Sciences and the Bureau des Longitudes.

He is best known for publishing lunar tables (positions of the Moon) between 18241828.

He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831.

A crater on the Moon is named after him.

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