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(1789-02): Lavoisier goes to Blois to take part in election of delegates and drafting a cahier of instructions to the delegates to the Estates General from the Nobility of Blois. Lavoisier, as secretary, takes a major part in the work.
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(1789-02-04): Following a report read by Darcet and Berthollet, Lavoisier's Traité élémentaire de chimie receives the approval of the Académie.
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(1789-02-15): The Gazette de France reports that Lavoisier personally presented copies of his Traité élémentaire de chimie to the King and Queen.
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(1789-03-15): Letter of Louis XVI to Lavoisier inviting him to present his "Traité des gaz inflammables" in an audience at 7:00 the following evening.
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(1789-03-27): Lescure comments on the elections currently taking place: "à Blois, M. de Lavoisier a été exclu en qualité de fermier général."
Lescure, Corresponande secrète, vol. 2, p. 340.
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(1789-03-28): Adoption by the nobility of Blois of the Instructions (drawn up by Lavoisier) to delegates to the Estates General. Lavoisier is named an alternate delegate in election hel March 29 and 30.
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(1789-04): Lavoisier returns to Paris from Blois.
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(1789-04): Lavoisier drafts the Cahier d'instructions for the electors representing the nobility of the ninth district of Paris.
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(1789-04): Lavoisier writes a historical survey of the Régie des Poudres.
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(1789-04-22): The nobility of the ninth district of Paris meet to name eight electors (including Lavoisier) who will represent them in the General Assembly of the nobility. Adoption of the Cahier, drawn up by Lavoisier.
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(1789-04-23): First meeting of the General Assembly of the nobility of Paris which will elect representatives to the Estates General. Lavoisier, asked if he would accept a candidacy, declares he has no claim to the votes of the Assembly.
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(1789-05-02): The first volume of the Annales de chimie is presented to the Académie. It contains Lavoisier's memoir on the combustion of iron.
P-V, 1789, fol. 124.
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(1789-05-05): Opening of the Estates General at Versailles.
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(1789-05-15): On this date Necker requests 12 millions livres from the Caisse d'escompte, a loan which the Administrators are reluctant to make. On May 29 Necker wins them over with assurances. Louis XVI then writes the Administrators thanking them for th
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(1789-05-23): A commission including Daubenton, Tillet, Bailly, Lavoisier, Laplace, Coulomb and Darcet reports to the Académie on plans to remove the slaughterhouses from Paris.
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(1789-06-22): Alcoholic fermentation of a sugar solution: separation into alcohol, sugar residue, dry yeast, water, vinegar and carbon dioxide.
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(1789-07-08): Tillet, Vandermonde, Rochon and Lavoisier report on a process of lining copper vessels with silver patented by Tugot and Daumy in 1785.
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(1789-07-10) (1789-07-13): The favourite of the Parisian mob target during the riots of July 10 and 13 are the walls constructed by Ledoux in 1787.
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(1789-07-12): In view of the tension and disorder throughout Paris Lavoisier foresees a run on the bank for the following morning.
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(1789-07-12): During the night powder is trasnferred from the Arsenal to the Bastille. At 11 P.M. the gunpowder commissioners are notified of the removal which, they are told, is to protect the powder and the neighborhood from the danger of fire.
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(1789-07-14): Outbreak of the riot against the Bastille. Lavoisier and his wife left the Arsenal (situated near the Bastille) fearing the consequences of the attacks.
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(1789-07-20): Lavoisier with his colleagues of the Caisse d'escompte call upon the Assemblée Constituante to offer their respect. The duc de Liancourt, presiding, praises the patriotism of a "compagnie financière qui, dans les moments des troubles…, n'a p
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(1789-07-22): The gunpowder commissioners send out a circular to their colleagues in the provinces assuring them that peace has been restored in Paris and that none of the commissioners has been harmed.
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(1789-07-23): Lavoisier and Monsure on behalf of the district Saint-Lois de la Culture call Lafayette to urge him to retract his resignation from the command of the National Guard. Lavoisier delivers stirring address.
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(1789-07-24): Lavoisier is named a mamber of the permanent committee of the district Saint-Louis de la Culture.
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