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(1793-10-02): Lavoisier is named president of the Bureau de consultation des arts et métiers.
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(1793-10-28): Loysel and Frécine present to the Convention Nationale a memoir on the measures of the ancients, actually written by Lavoisier.
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(1793-11-04): Fourcroy calls for the formation of a committee to proceed with "l'épuration" of the founders of the Lycée des arts. Lavoisier among those eliminated.
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(1793-11-11): Execution of Bailly, first major of Paris and friend of Lavoisier.
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(1793-11-24): Order issued for the arrest of the Fermiers généraux. Lavoisier goes into hiding at the residence of Lucas, a former usher at the Académie. From there he addresses petitions to the Convention and to the Comité des sureté générale.
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(1793-11-28): Lavoisier turns himself in. Paulze is arrested the same day.
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(1793-11-30): Letter from Cousin, vice-president of the Bureau de consultation des arts et métiers to Port Libre. Says the Board will not proceed to elect a new president until Lavoisier's term is expired.
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(1793-12-09): Lavoisier writes to Fourcroy asking him to obtain permission from the Comité de sureté générale for Lavoisier to go the Museum of the Académie to open a strongbox, the combination of which he alone knows.
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(1793-12-14): Lavoisier's mineralogical collection and laboratory instruments claimed by the Commission of public works for the use of the Ecole Centrale des Travaux Publiques.
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(1793-12-17): Seals are placed upon Lavoisier's home in the presence of Madame Lavoisier.
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(1793-12-18): On behalf of the Commission of weights and measures, Borda and Hauy send request to the Committee of Public Safety that Lavoisier be released in order to carry on his work. Thje petition is passed over without discussion.
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(1793-12-19): Letter of Lavoisier to his wife from prison.
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(1793-12-20): Epuration of the Commission of weights and measures. Borda, Lavoisier, Laplace, Coulomb, Brisson and Delambre are eliminated.
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(1793-12-21): The Committee on assignats and coins sends a reques to the Committee on Public Health that Lavoisier be allowed to work in his laboratory.
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(1793-12-24): Transfer of the Fermiers généraux to new quarters, in the Farm's offices, made into a prison.
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(1794): Rapport des commissaires réviseurs des trois compagnies de finances is drawn up by Gaudot and his associates. The report is published together with various Pièces justificatives including replies by the Fermier généraux to charges against them.
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(1794): Reply, drafted by Lavoisier, to accusations against the Fermiers Généraux together with supporting documents
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(1794): Lamarck publishes a book in which he refutes Lavoisier's pneumatic theory.
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(1794-01-08): Lavoisier's property at Fréchines is placed under government seal.
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(1794-01-08): Lavoisier obtains permission to visit his residence at the Boulevard de la Madeleine to take some papers and manuscripts related to the publication of his collections of memoirs in chemistry and physics.
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(1794-01-27): After 31 days of work the Fermiers Généraux were able to present their accounts to the Committee of finance.
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(1794-04-23): The vain attempt of Lavoisier's colleagues at the Régie des poudres to obtain Lavoisier's release in order that he might work with them on establishing the accounts of a revised system.
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(1794-04): Cadet and Baumé appear at the prison to present a certificate stating that Lavoisier had always opposed adding water to tobacco.
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(1794-04): Lavoisier composes a short autobiographical note listing his contributions to the Revolution.
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(1794-04): Madame Lavoisier's unsuccessful attempt to approach Dupin directly and persuade him to use his influence in Lavoisier's favor.
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