Marie-Charles Damoiseau
Baron Marie-Charles-Théodore de Damoiseau de Montfort (6 April 1768 in Besançon – 6 August 1846) was a French astronomer. Damoiseau was originally an artillery officer but he left France in 1792 during the French Revolution. He worked as assistant director of the Lisbon Observatory before he returned to France in 1807. In 1825, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Bureau des Longitudes. He is best known for publishing lunar tables (positions of the Moon) between 1824–1828. Scientific work. Theory of the Moon. In 1818 Laplace  proposed that the Académie des Sciences in Paris set up a prize to be awarded to whoever succeeded in constructing lunar tables based solely on the law of universal gravity. In 1820 the prize was awarded to Carlini and Plana and to Damoiseau by a committee of which Laplace was a member. Satellites of Jupiter. See also Manuscripts. The Paris observatory holds a large set of manuscripts from Damoiseau. See "Manuscrits Damoiseau" on http://alidade.obspm.fr