Charles Paul Narcisse Moreau

Colonel Charles Paul Narcisse Moreau (born 1837 September 14, Paris, died 1916 July 6) was a French soldier. He was made a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1872, and an officier in July 1893.

Spinrad (2008a, 2008b) gave some evidence suggesting that he is probably the C. Moreau (Capitaine d'Artillerie, a Constantine) who introduced Moreau's necklace-counting function in (Moreau 1872), and is possibly the "Colonel Moreau" who was notorious for losing all his 26 games in the 1903 Monte Carlo chess tournament.

Publications

• Moreau, C. (1872), "Sur les permutations circulaires distinctes (On distinct circular permutations)" (in French), Nouvelles annales de mathématiques, journal des candidats aux écoles polytechnique et normale, Sér. 2 11: 309–314, JFM 04.0086.01, http://www.numdam.org/item?id=NAM_1872_2_11__309_0 
• Moreau, C. (1873), "Correspondence" (in French), Nouvelles annales de mathématiques, journal des candidats aux écoles polytechnique et normale, Sér. 2 12: 322–324, http://www.numdam.org/item?id=NAM_NAM_1873_2_12__319_1 
• Moreau, C. (1875), "Propositions sur les nombres" (in French), Nouvelles annales de mathématiques, journal des candidats aux écoles polytechnique et normale, Sér. 2 14: 274–275, http://www.numdam.org/item?id=NAM_1875_2_14__274_1 
• Moreau, C. (1875), "Questions" (in French), Nouvelles annales de mathématiques, journal des candidats aux écoles polytechnique et normale, Sér. 2 14: 527–528, http://www.numdam.org/item?id=NAM_1875_2_14__527_1 
• Moreau, C. (1898), "Sur quelques théorèmes d'arithmétique" (in French), Nouvelles annales de mathématiques, journal des candidats aux écoles polytechnique et normale, Sér. 3 17: 293–307, JFM 29.0146.02, http://www.numdam.org/item?id=NAM_1898_3_17__293_0 

References

• Spinrad, Jermey P. (2008a), The mystery of Colonel Moreau, part 1, Chess Cafe, http://www.chesscafe.com/text/spinrad31.pdf 
• Spinrad, Jermey P. (2008b), The mystery of Colonel Moreau, part 2, Chess Cafe, http://www.chesscafe.com/text/spinrad32.pdf 

External links

• The Legion of honor site has several documents with details about Colonel Moreau's military career, awards, and his dates of birth and death.
• Chess games of Colonel Moreau
• Winter, Edward (2006), "Colonel Moreau", Chess notes (4574), http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter26.html 
• Papers by C.Moreau at JFM