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(1791-08-10): On behalf of the chemical community of Paris, Lavoisier writes to Priestley expressing solidarity for the loss of his laboratory during the riots of July 14 in Birmingham.
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(1791-09): Appearance of Marat's Les Charlatans Modernes attacking various academicians, notably Lavoisier.
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(1791-09-07): Lavoisier is named treasurer of the commission of weights and measures.
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(1791-09-12): Creation of the Bureau de Consultation des Arts et Métiers; Lavoisier made a member.
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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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