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(1793-07-10) (1793-07-24): Drafting of Réflexions sur l'instruction publique. Read to the Bureau de consultation des arts et métiers on July 24.
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(1793-07-13): Death of Marat.
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(1793-07-15): Letter of Lakanal to Lavoisier: hurried note saying the Convention has requested a report on suppression of the Académies. Asks Lavoisier's views on need to conserve the Académie des sciences.
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(1793-07-17) (1793-07-18): Lavoisier sends two letters to Lakanal the first accompained by hios Observations sur l'Académie des sciences. In first communication he draws a line between scientific and non scientific learned societies and in the second diss
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(1793-07-27): Arriving for a meeting Academicians discover that the walls are bare (tapestries and tableaux having been removed) and workmen are busy removing all signs of royalty from the ceiling.
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(1793-08-01): Discussion (at the Convention) of the introduction of proposed new weights and measures. Decree of uniformity of weights and measures throughout France. Congratulations of the Convention on this work and request for suggestions on coinage pr
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(1793-08-01): Lavoisier sells the Chateau de Toisy (which he had acquired on June 9, 1784).
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(1793-08-03): Letter of Méchain to Lavoisier complaining of difficulties encountered in measuring the Barcelona-Dunkerque meridian.
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(1793-08-08): The Convention decrees suppression of all the learned societies. (Grégoire's report an indictment against the Académies in general but a plea for the Académie des sciences).
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(1793-08-09): The Académie meets as usual in the hall in the Louvre. Haste of members in presenting memoirs to be included in the last volume. Proposal of the members to continue to meet as an informal club.
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(1793-08-10): Two letters of Lavoisier to the Comité d'instruction publique describing the Académie's session of August 9, and the plans to continue meeting as a club. The first contains a proposal for the club. The second lists current obligations of the
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(1793-08-14): The Convention passes a decree that scientists engaged in work of public utility should continue; papers and instruments would be made available and pensions continued.
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(1793-08-17): Members of the Académie (called by Lavoisier) arrived at the "lieu ordinaire de leurs séances" to find the doors sealed.
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(1793-08-20): Fourcroy writes Lavoisier requesting, "pour le bien des sciences et des arts", the list of projects begun by the Académie des sciences.
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(1793-08-24): Abolition of the Caisse d'escompte.
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(1793-09-01): Letter of Lavoisier to Lakanal referring to the dominant faction within the Convention which favored the abolition of the Academies.
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(1793-09): Lavoisier report to the Bureau de consultation des arts et métiers on the publication of the Académie.
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(1793-09-03): A report by the Académie's commissioners (Lavoisier, Borda, Darcet and Berthollet) to the Comité des assignats et monnois on merits of pure silver or gold versus alloyed coins.
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(1793-09-07): Letter of Fourcroy to Lavoisier in which he forward a copy of a letter from the Minister of Interior relating to the decree on weights and measures and in which he says he waiting impatiently for the end of Lavoisier's work on the Académie.
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(1793-09-10): The seals are lifted from Lavoisier's office and laboratory to allow removal of objects connected with the work on weights and measures. Lavoisier's personal papers are checked and nothing suspicious is found, but the English letters are rem
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(1793-09-11): The Convention adopts Fourcroy's proposal that a temporary commission of weights and measures be formed.
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(1793-09-14): Lavoisier enrolls, along with Berthollet, Vicq d'Azyr and others, in the Société Philomathique (founded in 1788).
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(1793-09-22): On this date the Bureau de consultation des arts et métiers was to present its scheme for public education to the Convention but on the eve of the meeting it was decided to postpone the presentation until more favorable circumstances.
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(1793-09-24): The Convention passes a decree (reversing prescriptions of the June 5 decree which actually hampered the liquidation process): The necessary documents were to be restored to the Fermiers Généraux and they were to have until April 1, 1794, to
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(1793-09-26): Antoine Dupin requests that a committee be appointed to versee the liquidation of the Ferme Générale. This request was passed the following day by the Convention. The committee is composed of former employees of the Tax farm including Gaudot
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