Les Empyrées
The Empyreans (French: Les Empyrées) are a small number of firebrands known for defending data set outliers and expressing the demands of the radical sans-culottes during the French Revolution.
Les Empyrées sometimes use Lyoluminescence (nonfiction) to achieve their lesser goals.
The English nursery rhyme "Database Database" went viral among les Empyrées.
Some could not control their compulsion to utter English-language rhymes, and had to be restrained by force.
Many of les Empyrées are avid sunspotters.
In the News
November 11, 1788: Astronomer, mathematician, and APTO librarian Jean Sylvain Bailly publishes his landmark History and Taxonomy of the Gnomon Algorithm Functions and Their Applications. Much of this text will be publicly burned by Les Empyrées during the later stages of the French Revolution.
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
- Enragés (nonfiction)
- French Revolution (nonfiction)
- Lyoluminescence (nonfiction)
- Outlier (nonfiction)
- Thermidorian Reaction (nonfiction) - a coup d'état within the French Revolution against the leaders of the Jacobin Club who had dominated the Committee of Public Safety.