Édouard Benjamin Baillaud was a French astronomer.
Benjamin Baillaud
The Paris Observatory, a research institution of the Paris Sciences et Lettres University, is the foremost astronomical observatory of France, and one of the largest astronomical centers in the world. Its historic building is on the Left Bank of the Seine in central Paris, but most of the staff work on a satellite campus in Meudon, a suburb southwest of Paris.
Paris Observatory
Paris Observatory
The Château-Neuf at Meudon in 1871, after the fire.
Project for a dome in the heart of the Château-Neuf, never built. Circa 1880