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(1791-09-23): Decree reorganizing the Régie des poudres and reducing the number of commissioners from four to three.
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(1791-10): Talleyrand having requested a critique of his plan for public instruction, Lavoisier writes a few pages of Réflexions.
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(1791-10-01): Letter of Lavoisier to Tarbé, minister of public contributions, in which he protests his removal from the gunpowder commission and asks that he be allowed to keept his appartment (and laboratory) at the Arsenal.
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(1791-11): Lavoisier as a member of commission of National Treasury, is called before the Assemblée Nationale to present the state of receipts and expenses.
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(1791-11-12): Public session of the Académie: "M. Lavoisier a lu un Mémoire sur la respiration des animaux."
P-V, 1791, second part, fol. 15.
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(1791-12): Publication of De l'état des finances de France au 1er janvier 1792.
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(1791-12-19): Letter of Cahier, minister of the Interior, notifying Lavoisier that he has been named treasurer of the Académie, a position vacated by the death of Tillet.
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(1791-12-23): At the Académie "M. Seguin a lu un Mémoire fait conjointement avec M. Lavoisier sur les vaisseaux absorbants et un deuxième Mémoire sur la transpiration."
P-V, 1791, second part, fol. 49.
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(1792): Publication of two memoirs on gunpowder.
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(1792-01): Letter to the Société des amis de la Constitution de Blois. Lavoisier says he is overwhelmed by his activities and is beginning to feel the weight of the immense burden placed upon him.
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(1792-01): Interesting letter to Nompère de Champagny in which Lavoisier expresses his concern over the deplorable state of finances and the war menace.
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(1792-01): Lavoisier drafts a report to the Académie on the funds available for the prize competition.
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(1792-01-07): The committee of weights and measures convenes following a meeting of the Académie.
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(1792-01-15): Letter of Lavoisier to "MM. Les Fondateurs dy Lycée". Too busy to attend meetings: "mon temps est tellement occupé par les détails relatifs à la chose publique."
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(1792-02): Lavoisier resigns post at the National Treasury.
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(1792-02): Lavoisier recalled to the Régie des poudres (replacing Clouet). Shrtly after his return he offers his resignation to Clavières, offering to continue his analysis without retribution. But he has to stay until the return of Le Facheux fils.
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(1792-02-02): Letter of Cahier, Minister of the Interior, to Lavoisier concerning pensions of Tessier and Fourcroy.
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(1792-02-22): At the Académie "M. Seguin a lu un mémoire sur la transpiration. M. Lavoisier a annoncé à cette occasion que ce travail commencé d'abord en commun avec lui avait été suivi ensuite par M. Seguin seul et que les expériences de ce mémoire lui a
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(1792-02-25): Laplace, Vicq d'Azyr and Lavoisier report to the Académie on Vauquelin's memoir on respiration of insects.
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(1792-02-25): Berthollet, Tessier and Lavoisier report favorably on Hassenfratz's memoir on plant metabolism.
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(1792-03): Lavoisier, together with Lagrange, Laplace, Fourcroy, Guyton de Morveau and Berthollet, attends the lectures in mineralogy delivered by Haüy.
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(1792-03-07): Adanson, Jussieu, Fourcroy and Lavoisier report on Seguin's memoir on plant metabolism and on the dispute between Hassenfratz and Seguin on the origin of the carbon in plants.
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(1792-04-25): Fourcroy's proposal that the Académie strike from its roll members guilty of "incivism".
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(1792-05-11): Minister of the Interior presents a report to the Assemblée Nationale on the progress made by the Académie in unification of weights and measures.
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(1792-06-10): Le Roy, Lavoisier, Berthollet and Pelletier report to the Académie on the merits of some cotton skeins which had been dyed by M. Bonafont.
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