The Relation de Chasles is named for Michel Chasles, the French mathematician whose name is attached to several results in geometry. In school mathematics the phrase most often refers to the vector relation, where a journey from one point to another can be broken through a middle point. Because the formula is repeated so often in French classes, the name alone has become shorthand among students. Online, short clips invoking it work as a recognisable reference, shared less for teaching the rule than for the shared memory of learning it.