The 42-year-old Frenchman has scaled scores of well-known structures around the world including the Empire State Building and the Eiffel Towe, often without permission or any safety equipment or ropes.
Frenchman Francois Boullier invented the grater way back in the 1540s, as a way of using up cheese that had gone hard.It was an instant hit You'd be 106 if you were doing a souffle!
Well it was more than a hundred years before we'd figure out the answer to those questions, with the help of a Frenchman Jacques Charles and our old, Italian house-elf friend Amedeo Avogadro.
That's a long way since the inventor of the parachute Frenchman Andre-Jacques Garnerin used a canvas canopy in a small basket to drop from beneath a hot air balloon in 1797.
A century and a half after Newton, and more than two after Galileo, a Frenchman called Augustin-Jean Fresnel worked out that you can do it using diffraction.
Based on usually this was a left wing economist on the Frenchman tabooed who top the New York's bestseller list explaining why the gaps between rich and poor get wider.