Sully Prudhomme elected to the Académie française in 1881. Another distinction, "Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur", was to follow in 1895. After, "Le Bonheur", Prudhomme turned from poetry to write essays on aesthetics and philosophy. He published two important essays: "L'Expression dans les beaux-arts" (1884) and "Réflexions sur l'art des vers" (1892), a series of articles on Blaise Pascal in "La Revue des Deux Mondes" (1890), and an article on free will ("La Psychologie du Libre-Arbitre", 1906) in the "Revue de métaphysique et de morale". The first writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (given "in special recognition of his poetic
Henry Sully the Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice. In 1737, another one of his books was published: "Illustrations de Règle artificielle du temps, traité de la division naturelle et artificielle du temps...". Henry Sully Henry Sully (1680–1729) was an English clockmaker. He lived for many years in France. He invented a marine clock to determine longitude accurately, a sophisticated pendulum clock. He presented a first "Montre de la Mer" in 1716 to the French Académie des Sciences. He was the first to develop chronometer in Paris. In 1718, Henry Sully established a watch factory in Versailles. He presented two new models in 1723. In