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(1794-12-10): Petition presented to the Convention on behalf of the widows and children of the Fermiers Généraux.
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1795 |
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(1795): Lalande publishes the first obituary on the life and work of Lavoisier. He reminds that in his last days, when he was loosing all of his fortunes, Lavoisier thought of making his living by practising as an pharmacist.
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(1795-03-06): The Convention decides to restore real estate and furnishing belonging personally to heirs of those condemned.
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(1795-05-03): The Convention decrees return of confiscated property of the Fermiers Généraux to their heirs.
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(1795-05-05): Apparently unaware of the Decree of May 3, Dupin proposes to the Convention that the confiscation of property of the unjustly condemned financiers be declared void.
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(1795-07): Pamphlet denouncing Dupin for his role in the vindictive pursuit of the Fermiers Généraux, written and published by Madame Lavoisier.
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(1795-08-13): Dupin is delcared under arrest and deprived of his commission as representative of the people. (He is released after the general amnesty of October 26, 1795).
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(1795-10-22): At the Lycée des arts Bouillon-Lagrange reads an obituary of Lavoisier according to which Dumas, in answer to those who sought to save Lavoisier from the guillotine by extolling his virtues as a scientist, purportedly said “France has no n
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(1796-04): Carrying out of the Convention's order restoring effects of the deceased Fermiers Généraux.
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(1796-04-19): At the Lycée des arts, the director Charles Désaudray reads an eulogy of the anatomist Desault and at the end of the ceremony, the busts of Lavoisier and Desault are placed at the top of two pyramids built for the occasion. Some 3000 people
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(1796-06) (1796-07): Séguin and Madame Lavoisier resumes the edition of Lavoisier's Mémoires de physique et de chimie. In this occasion Séguin write a short biographical note of Lavoisier.
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(1796-07): About this time Madame Lavoisier begins the slow process of reclaiming all the items which had been confiscated.
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1797 |
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(1797): Publication of the first memoir on animal transpiration by Lavoisier and Seguin.
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1798 |
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(1798): Report of Martin Klaproth on the German translation of the Traité élémentaire de chimie.
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(1798): Monnet publishes a chemical treatise in which he attacks Lavoisier and his theory.
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1800 |
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(1800): Coin of commemorative medal portraying Lavoisier by Gengembre and Andrieu.
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1801 |
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(1801): Napoleon orders the production of a bust of Lavoisier.
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1803 |
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(1803-05-28): Madame Lavoisier sold the estate of Fréchines for the sum of 632098 francs to M. de La Forest.
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1805 |
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(1805-09): Madame Lavoisier publishes an introduction to her husbands' Mémoires de physique et de chimie (in press during 1793) and distributes several copies of this unfinished work to friends and scientists.
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(1805-10-24): Marriage of Madame Lavoisier and Count Rumford.
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1806 |
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(1806): Madame Brossard de Beaulieu presents at the Institut an engraved portrait of Lavoisier based on original sketches.
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1807 |
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(1807): Composition of a gouache portraying Lavoisier inspired by an earlier illustration by Hassenfratz and Madame Lavoisier.
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1809 |
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(1809-06-30): An amicable separation of Madame Lavoisier and Count Rumford.
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1814 |
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(1814): Publication of the second memoir on animal transpiration by Seguin and Lavoisier.
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1836 |
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(1836): Jean Baptiste Dumas delivers some chemical lectures at the Collège de France and announces the project of a national edition of Lavoisier's collected works (the first volume was published only in 1862):
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