Chasles, Philarète, a French littérateur, born near Chartres, a disciple of Rousseau; lived several years in England, and wrote extensively on English subjects, Shakespeare, Mary Stuart, Charles I., and Cromwell among the chief (1799‒1873).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Chasles, Michel * Chassé, David Hendrik, Baron