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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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(1789-07-26) (1789-07-27): The demolition of the Bastille poses potential hazard, congestion and backing up of the sewer. Fougeroux de Bondaroy and two others are named to investigate. Fougeroux thinkls it wise to include Lavoisier. The inspectors finding
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(1789-08): During the Assembly of the Nobility of Blois famine was threatening the city. Lavoisier donated 50000 francs to be used to provide the bakeries with flour.
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(1789-08): Only recorded meeting of a committee of eight formed within the Société Royale d'agriculture (reorganization of 1788). Lavoisier recorded the minutes.
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(1789-08-02): Lavoisier is named a member of the Bureau de la Bastille.
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(1789-08-05): The chemistry section of the Académie in conjuncttion with Tillet, Sage and Darcet, reports on memoir sent by Necker on separation of gold ans silver in assaying and the cause of errors involved.
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(1789-08-08): Lavoisier and his colleague Le Facheux fils, are nearly victims of a riot over the powder transfer incident at Port-Saint-Paul.
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(1789-08-23): Fortin receives 300 livres from Lavoisier for the construction of an apparatus for studying wine fermentation.
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(1789-08-27): The powder commissioners give 600 livres to the centra office of the district Saint-Louis de la Culture to help defray the costs of the tearing down the Bastille.
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(1789-08-27): Caillet, the secretary of the Académie of Dijon, writes to Lavoisier thanking him for the presentation of his Traité élémentaire de chimie. Refers to "la grande révolution que vos travaux ont préparée."
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(1789-08-28): At the Académie Lavoisier, Brisson, Meusnier de la Place and Laplace report favorably on Séguin's paper concerning new experiments on synthesis of water. The published version in the Annales de chimie gives the reading as August 28, 1790.
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(1789-08-29): Letter of Joseph Black to the Académie thanking them for naming him associé étranger (in place of Pieter Camper, on May 15, 1789). Read by the secretary of the Académie on August 29, 1789.
P-V, 1789, fol. 109.
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(1789-09-18): Lavoisier named representative to the general assembly of the commune of Paris (from the district Culture Sainte -Catherine).
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(1789-09-19): Letter of Lavoisier to Joseph Black introducing a student. Lavoisier says he sending along a copy of the Traité élémentaire de chimie: "… vous y trouverez le développement d'une Doctrine nouvelle que je crois plus simple et plus d'accord ave
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(1789-09-22): The accounts of the emergency fund presented by the Commune by Lavoisier and his colleagues, show two gifts, of 20000 and 6000 livres, from the Fermiers généraux and a personal gift of 288 livres from Lavoisier.
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(1789-09-27): Short note of the Marquise de Clermont d'Amboise to Lavoisier requesting 20 livres of powder.
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(1789-10-09): In reply to an inquiry from the Comtre Jean Baptiste Carburi, Lavoisier published a letter on the existence of mineral nitre, pointing out that deposits are to be found only near the earth's surface since formation of the salt requires air.
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(1789-11-13): Petition of the clerks of the Ferme Générale to the Assemblée Nationale, asking that the Fermiers généraux be forced to account for the money which had flowed into the "Caisse de retraite."
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(1789-11-14): Public session of the Académie: Lavoisier reads a memoir on platinum.
P-V, 1789, fol. 222.
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(1789-11-18): La Rochefoucauld d'Enville delivers a speech at the Académie stressing the need for internal reform, including elimination of the "unnatural orders." Addition to the speech delivered on November 25 on the issue of the respective roles of the
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(1789-11-20): Lavoisier delivers an address to the Assemblée Nationale defending the administration of the Caisse d'escompte against certain attacks from revolutionary quarters.
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